Child At Heart Quotes

When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

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

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they forget the way. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again...The world calls them singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.