Child S Imagination Quotes

#1. I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Tim Curry

#2. The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Ken Spillman

#3. It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

Padraic Colum

#4. My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

Mary Pope Osborne

#5. While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

Kevin Spacey

#6. There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#7. A child's imagination can inspire anyone.

Mahamad Ali Elfakir

#8. Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!

K. Lamb

#9. A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

K. Lamb

#10. You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.

Meg Medina

#11. Unlock a child's imagination through the power of words.

Kai Strand

#12. As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

Siri Hustvedt

#13. Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life wasn't quite enough.

Regan Walker

#14. Though sympathy tugged at her, Sophie's imagination made fearsome leaps. The grieving widower. The destitute governess. A motherless child. It had all the makings of a scintillating novel.

Laura Frantz

#15. The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.

Charlotte Mason

#16. Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. Fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

Caroline Myss

#18. We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

James Hillman

#19. Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.

Franny Armstrong

#20. Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

Henry Williamson

#21. Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Kate Atkinson

#22. A child's imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

Doug Dillon

#23. A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

Michael Frayn

#24. Regarding children's literature, look for interesting content and well-constructed sentences clothed in literary language. The imagination should be warmed and the book should hold the interest of the child. Life's too short to spend time with books that bore us.

Deborah Taylor-Hough

#25. The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Maria Montessori

#26. I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

Mary Pope Osborne

#27. A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child.

Napoleon Hill

#28. Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

Nicole Ari Parker

#29. In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Criss Jami

#31. The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Julia Child

#32. I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

Malcolm McDowell

#33. Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

John Rhys-Davies

#34. What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Eleanor Roosevelt