Childhood Optimism Quotes

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.

I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

When you are little, it's not hard to believe you can change the world.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.