Dwight Henry Quotes

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

Adults are obsolete children.

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

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

My name doesn't exactly shout 'babyface.'

Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

I think perception is important.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

The older you get, the more you learn.