Children Quote by Michael J. Collins

“Now that I'm an adult, I can finally be the kid I always wanted to be.”

— Ksenia Anske

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

— Tadahiko Nagao

“I wanna be forever young.”

— Alphaville

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Don't grow up too fast, Darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never, ever grow old.”

— Beth Hoffman

“Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child.”

— Cisero

“Childhood is short and maturity is forever.”

— Calvin

“When you’re young you just want to be older, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”

— Lauren Oliver

“I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that…

— Cassandra Clare

“you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to…

— Maria Montessori

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”

— Larry Smith