To have a child is to forever have your heart go walking…

A child is your heart walking around outside your body

— Marie Force

“Making the decision to have a child—it’s wondrous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.”

— Nancy Wald

“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn,…

— Michael J. Collins

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to…

— James A. Owen

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and…

— Johnny Depp

“I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I…

— Jodi Picoult

“Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.”

— Tadahiko Nagao

“Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up—the agony of making such…

— Anonymous

I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my…

— Dani Shapiro

Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

— Mat Kearney

“Anyone capable of training the heart is a walking zombie.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“I had set off, going straight ahead, to escape a broken heart. I had been walking for three hours, wherever the forest took me.”

— Timothée de Fombelle