Quotes and Lyrics by Reamonn

This life is so complicated, until we see it through the eyes of a child.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms, when his hands are empty.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures attempt to do.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Love can be learned. And there's no better learners than children.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Having a baby is like having a tattoo on your face. You kind of want to be committed.

Sometimes I wish I were a kid again; skinned knees are a lot easier to fix than a broken heart.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Do 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.

There's no age where everything is experienced as intense as during childhood. We old people should always remember that.

Disneyland 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?

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

The soul is healed by being with children.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

People should carry their childhood from beginning 'til end inside of them.

It'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.

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.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this

I'm not young enough to know everything.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

We don't need to worry
'Cause when we fall, we know how to land
Don't need to talk the talk, just walk the walk tonight
'Cause we don't need permission to dance

Don't you think we got another season
That come after spring?
I wanna be your summer
I wanna be your wave
Treat me like a comma
I'll take you to a new phrase

And I know there's no makin' this right, this right
And I know there's no changing your mind, your mind
But we both found each other tonight, tonight
So if love is nothing more than just a waste of your time

Waste it on me, waste it on me

She was sayin', "Come get me"
So I got up and followed her to the floor
She said, "Baby, let's go"
When I told her, I said
Yeah, yeah

'Cause I, I, I'm in the stars tonight
So watch me bring the fire and set the night alight
Shinin' through the city with a little funk and soul
So I'ma light it up like dynamite

This is gettin' heavy, can you hear the bass boom? I'm ready
Life is sweet as honey, yeah, this beat cha-ching like money

Deep down, you know it's best for yourself, but you
Hate the thought of her bein' with someone else
But you know that it's over, we knew it was through
Let it burn, let it burn, gotta let it burn

It's the thought of being young
When your heart's just like a drum
Beating louder with no way to guard it
When it all seems like it's wrong
Just sing along to Elton John
And to that feeling, we're just getting started

Side step, right, left to my beat
High like the moon, rock with me, baby
Know that I got that heat
Let me show you 'cause talk is cheap

Smooth like butter
Like a criminal undercover
Gon' pop like trouble
Breakin' into your heart like that

You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time
You'd be mine

Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily

Don't ya know?
They're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Give me one reason to stay here
And I'll turn right back around

No matter what I do
All I think about is you
Even when I'm with my boo
Boy, you know I'm crazy over you