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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical Outlook
- Education
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
Albert Camus1913–1960Said at the Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948); reported in Resistance, Rebellion and Death (translation by Justin O’Brien, 1961), p. 73
- Good & Evil
It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16: The Healing of Harms
- Maturity
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Lucille Ball1911–1989Love, Lucy (1996), p. 235
- Family
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Le Petit Prince (1943)
- Maturity
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. XVII: “The Red Angel”
- Fear
Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Being Peace (2005)
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one’s heart and brings its own reward.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
- Fame
Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child.
Walt Disney1901–1966Recorded statement (1938) used in The Pixar Story (2008)
Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3: Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima
- Love
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Peter Pan (1911), Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1In context
- Youth
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30
- Atheism
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901)
All our children are outriders for a queendom not yet assured.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response”, p. 73