Stay a child while you can be a child.

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

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

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by…

— Piaget

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child…

— Brandy Norwood

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

“He makes you feel like a better person than you are. And this is what makes you regret, again, endlessly, that you cannot stay…

— N.K. Jemisin

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

— Michael Jackson

“People always say to me "What do you think you'd like to be When you grow up?" And I say, "Why, I think I'd…

— Karla Kuskin

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

— Naseeruddin Shah

“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

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

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

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