James M. Barrie Quotes

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

I used to stick my head out the window when I was a kid and sing at the top of my lungs and think no one could hear me.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death