Miranda July Quotes

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

Where children are, there is the golden age.