Innocent Wonder Quotes

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you know. We're two overweight lovable guys that kids really enjoy.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.