Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

— St. Catherine of Siena

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment…

— Maria Montessori

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

— Jerome Bruner

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I…

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

The Earth herself is spirit, she is like a young child.

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

— Dan O'Brien

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years…

— Annie Dillard

A face that puts on a smile through the day and cries her self to sleep at night. thinking and wishing what she could…

— Slowly_fading

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on.…

— Daniel Tammet

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow -…

— Anne Michaels

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you,…

— Tom Hooper

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting…

— Ben Affleck

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is…

— Israelmore Ayivor

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

— Lewis Carroll

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the…

— Yayoi Kusama