Maria Montessori Quotes

At the core of every child is an intact human.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

I always have felt that I was six years old.

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

We are all children searching for love.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!