Philippe Petit Quotes

There is a child in all of us.

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

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

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.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

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

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

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

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

My curiosity sister of larks.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.