we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep…

“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.”

— Péter Nádas

“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.”

— Péter Nádas

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

— May Sarton

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right…

— Pearl S. Buck

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of…

— Williston Fish

“Children long to be loved but at the same time they give the most love. We were once all like that.”

— Sohn Won-Pyung

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

— Roald Dahl

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Children should be children as long as they can”

— Louisa May Alcott

INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

— Nikhil Saluja

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to…

— Dr. John

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just…

— Roald Dahl

“On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost, Dishevelled with shoes untied, Playing through the railings with little children Whose children have long since…

— Richard Heinzl

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to…

— Gloria Steinem

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children…

— John Ruskin