Don’t think of it as getting hot flashes. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.
Unknown
Everybody’s 12 years old in an apple orchard.
Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray Show, while making autumn stew, original airdate 11 October 2007
Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Sainte-Beuve,Portraits littéraires, 1862
My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is.
Ron Olson
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Jean de la Bruyere
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
Martha Beck
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Jean de la Bruyere
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A grownup is a child with layers on.
Woody Harrelson
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
Mencius
When you’re green you’re growing, and when you’re ripe you start to rot.
Ray Kroc
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Sainte-Beuve
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud