Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

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.

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

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

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

On Christmas Eve, it's my wife and my son and my daughter and I. We're home, and we open our presents together on Christmas Day, and then after we go visit the rest of the family.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.

One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.