Child At Heart Quotes

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

  Pam Grier

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Adolphe Menjou

  Children, Heart, People

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

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Nature, Wind

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, Heart, Artist

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• 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.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Children, Creativity

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Children

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

  Harvey Penick

  Children, Heart, Practice

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

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

  Gottfried Benn

  Education, Play, Want

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

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Heart, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Children, Parenting

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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

  Edna O'Brien

  Wise, Children, Heart

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Childhood

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