innocent delight Quotes

All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

I'm like a kid: I love dessert.

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

The pleasure politicians take in their limelight pleases me with a sort of pleasure I get when I see a child's eyes gleam over a new toy.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.