One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. ~Sam Levenson
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~Rachel Carson
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence quotes
Perhaps what we sometimes call 'genius' is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination. ~ Michael Cibenko
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ~Brian Aldiss
When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. ~Ray Kroc
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. ~Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"
Courtesy of Lissy Elle
http://www.lissyelle.com/
From the drafts folder
5 years ago
