David Small Quotes

It's like being a little kid again, parading around in a nightgown tucked into your underpants, believing it looks terrific.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

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.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.