Children Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, as we wrongly think, but that the imagination lives in the child.

— Gaston Bachelard

“imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...”

— Noël Coward lyric

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

— Charlotte Mason

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

— Patricia A. McKillip

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

— Laura Linney

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a…

— Julianna Baggott

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only…

— Cesare Pavese

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

— Fred G. Gosman

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is…

— Tom Robbins

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

— Cullen Hightower