Nina Blackwood Quotes

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

I was a dreamer when I was younger.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

We all live best in our imaginations.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.