Just Kids.

Guy Stauber "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet Paul Cox "Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." - Plato Jon Foster "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." - Eleanor Roosevelt James Bennett "A child miseducated is a child lost." - John F. Kennedy Goni Montes " I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant." - Ursula K. Le Guin, writer Gary Kelley “A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet Gregory Manchess "Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed." - Maria Montessori, educator Bill Sanderson "When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero." - Fred Rogers, TV host "Mr. Rogers" Maria Corte Maidagan "Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence." - Plato Chase Stone "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm." - Aldous Huxley, novelist Edward Kinsella III "You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." - John J. Plomp David Johnson "Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity." - Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist Rudy Gutierrez "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F. Kennedy Yan Nascimbene "Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." - Maya Angelou, writer Michal Dziekan "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." - Native American Proverb Tyler Jacobson "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." - Nelson Mandela Eric Drooker "The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop." - Mark Twain C.F. Payne “What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace.” - Picasso Mark Summers “No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.” - Victor Hugo, author Ted Wright "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." -  Khalil Gibran, poet Douglas Smith “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso Tran Nguyen “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” - Simone Weil, philosopher Niklas Asker “A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.” - Arthur Miller, playwright Kinuko Y. Craft “The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” - Pablo Casals, musician Tim Bower “Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.” - Walt Disney Octavia Monaco “Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.” - Joan Almon, educator Mark T. Smith “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.” - Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Ehretsmann “If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” - Carl Jung, psychologist Scott Brundage “Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer Dongyun Lee “The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” - Carl Jung, psychologist