Age Quote by Truman Capote

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

— Samuel Smiles

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

— Kathe Kollwitz

When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and…

— Susan Cooper

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

— Marco Pierre White

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

— Agatha Christie

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your…

— Caroline Norton

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

— Ian Mcewan

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

— Hugo Weaving

“How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience".”

— Big Daddy Abel

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

— Phyllis Bottome

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

— Simon Van Booy

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite…

— Olive Schreiner