Mary Elizabeth Donaldson Quotes

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

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

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.

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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

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.

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

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.