Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

Watching my little 18 month old confidently waddle around his weekend exploring the world, I realized that one of the things that's so joyful about being around little one's is that they haven't absorbed all of our cultural programming yet.

When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

The love of my life? I'm much too young to answer that question.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

First love is such a big thing growing up.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

At the core of every child is an intact human.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.