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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Childhood, Aging, Innocence, Time, Wisdom

"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Endurance, Memory, Reflection

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Childhood, Experience, Courage, Mother

"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Childhood, History, Power, Tradition, Class

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

Childhood,

"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Childhood, Children, Imagination, Preparation, Strength

"To abandon the child 'within' means that the adult 'without' will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Childhood, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Childhood, Aging, Innocence, Imagination, Renewal

"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."

Dragos Bratasanu, Romanian Scientist

Childhood, Attachment, Emotion, Love

"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Childhood, Wonder, Miracle, Life

Explore more quotes by Pat Morita

"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."

Experience

"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"

Autobiography

"You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff."

People

"A lot happens in 20 years."

Years

"I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable."

Actor

"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent."

Idea

"It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks."

Career

"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed."

Word

"I didn't have a childhood."

Childhood