Alfred Noyes Quotes

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

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

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.