Carson McCullers Quotes

Kids are the most genuine thing to me: everything they say and do, they mean it.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

We all know how to be a child.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, 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.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'

Children are wonderful!

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

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.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

We learn many things from children, always.

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.