Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
Calvin and Hobbes, by CalvinChildren are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
Neil PostmanThe value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
MarriagePeter De VriesSo many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun. You should stay a kid as long as possible!
AgeVanessa HudgensChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them.
Max MullerFor it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
ChristmasCharles Dickens in A Christmas CarolThe most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim HensonI've learned that you are never too small to make a difference.
Small Things, MotivationGreta Thunberg (Climate activist)Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
UpbringingAnna QuindlenIf true and unconditional love exists in this world, then it has to be the love between a mother and a child.
Love, MotherUrvashi RautelaThere's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
ParentsMark WahlbergYou can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Birthday, Craziness & WeirdnessDave BarryA child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
ListeningAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanA child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
AgePablo NerudaChildren in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene CoxThere's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
ChristmasErma BombeckWe are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
UpbringingRoy L. SmithI think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
Birthday, AgeBob NewhartFor years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
AgeWilliam GibsonThe depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
ParentsJames E. FaustThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Genius, MotivationAldous HuxleyEach day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
MemoriesCharles R. SwindollThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Fathers, Parents, MotherHenry Ward BeecherDo you remember in kindergarten how you'd meet a kid and know nothing about them, then 10 seconds later you're playing like you're best friends, because you didn't have to be anything but yourself? Singing with you felt like that.
FriendshipHigh School Musical, by Gabriella MontezA two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
Jerry SeinfeldAll grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
Birthday, AgeAntoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little PrinceYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Family, ParentsKhalil GibranChildren are our best judges.
Otto von BismarckChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
ParentsOscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian GrayIt's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
ParentsRoald Dahl in MatildaIf my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.
Books, ReadingRoald DahlI'd give all the wealth that years have piled,
the slow result of life's decay,
To be once more a little child
for one bright summer day.
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Parents, BirthJohnny DeppDisneyland isn't designed just for children. When does a person stop being a child? Can you say that a child is ever entirely eliminated from an adult?
AgeWalt Disney...when I was a kid and rode in cars I used to imagine I held a big scythe in my hand and cut down all the trees and posts and even sliced every hill that zoomed past the window.
ImaginationJack Kerouac in On the RoadWhere'd the days go, when all we did was play?
And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all
Just a run and a jump into a harmless fall
He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a 'Saumensch'. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.
LoveMarkus Zusak in The Book ThiefChildren do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
ImaginationMaurice SendakYou cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Books, WritingMaurice SendakIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
FairytalesAlbert Einstein