Bo Burnham Quotes

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.

When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are - they don’t get to change the definition.

You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.