Beatrix Potter Quotes

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

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.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I didn't interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically.

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.