I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a…

Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled…

— Robin Wasserman

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

— Angad Bedi

“We need to always deal with the child in front of us, not the child of our fantasies.”

— Madeline Levine

“within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who…

— Anonymous

Your child is always your child, regardless of age. You feel their feelings, share in their joys and hurt in their sorrows.

— Nishan Panwar

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an…

— Vernon Howard

“Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.”

— Jarod Kintz

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think…

— China Mieville

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen…

— Louis L'Amour

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do.…

— Audrey Hepburn

Every child is your child.

— Anonymous

“A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.”

— Miguel Syjuco

When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too…

— Masahisa Goi

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of…

— Alexander Grothendieck