You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create…

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

— Pankaj Tripathi

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt…

— John Rhys-Davies

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

— Dave Thomas

Says she's got my child, but it don't look like me.

— Grateful Dead

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

— Tamara Mellon

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share…

— Rachel Carson

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

— John Cassavetes

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of…

— Rachel Carson

“Few living do." "Then, have I...I mean, am I-" "Oh, no, child! You are still very much alive! Though I may say, not as…

— R.W. Schmidt

“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness, the kind…

— Neena H. Brar

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

— Jonathan Winters

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

— Anais Nin

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered…

— Ruta Sepetys

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

— Beatrix Potter