It sounds corny, but I’ve promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. – Wynonna Judd quotes

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso

My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. – Ron Olson

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. – Jean de la Bruyere

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.  That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. – Brian Aldiss

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. – James Broughton quotes

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. – Gaston Bachelard

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Childr n physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Always jump in the puddles!  Always skip alongside the flowers.  The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. – Terri Guillemets

Adults are obsolete children. – Dr. Seuss

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman Podhoretz

Some things can only be understood when you’re in a tree house.  With a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies.  And a book. – Dr. SunWolf

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. – Sam Levenson

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still. – Fred Rogers

My inner child is not wounded. – Shannen Doherty

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. – R.C. Ferguson

Complain about the future and blame it on the past, I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass. – The Eagles quotes

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. – Barbara Jordan

Look inside, you’ll find a deeper love. The kind that only comes from high above. If you’ll ever meet your inner child, don’t cry, no, no. Tell them everything is gonna be alright. – Bob Sinclar quotes

The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children. – Jim Henson

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. – Papiha Ghosh

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things…. I play with leaves.  I skip down the street and run against the wind. – Leo Buscaglia

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. – G.K. Chesterton

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. – Martha Beck quotes

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. – James Gunn quotes

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.  When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. – Eugene Ionesco

I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then. – Bob Seger, “Against the Wind”

A grownup is a child with layers on. – Woody Harrelson

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I’m afraid if I do, I’ll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. – Kenny Loggins quotes

My inner child is a mean little fucker. – Unknown quotes

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

When you’re green you’re growing, and when you’re ripe you start to rot. – Ray Kroc

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart. – Mencius, Book IV