“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
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Laura Ingalls Wilder29
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist 1867–1957Related quotes
“A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 31.
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
"La logique et l'intuition dans la science mathématique et dans l'enseignement" [Logic and intuition in the science of mathematics and in teaching], L'enseignement mathématique (1899)
Context: The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide.
“Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.”
Alice Munro book Too Much Happiness
Source: Too Much Happiness
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Source: The Discovery of the Child (1948), Ch. 1
“The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.”
Nathan Lane (1956) American actor
On the possibility of winning a Tony Award for his performance in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum — reported in Joan Vadeboncoeur (April 21, 1996) "Grasping For Stardom With The Success of 'Birdcage,' Nathan Lane Has Hopes (Again) For An Elusive Broadway Prize", Syracuse Herald American, p. 25.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
On the Condition of Modern Art, lecture (1867).
