
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
Journal entry (1896-11-17), from the National Trust collection.
Source: The Complete Tales
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
From Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever: Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
Year unknown, published in 2001, The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
Responding to notions that her role in Call Girl might inspire women to become prostitutes.
Guardian interview (2008)
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1924)
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1938/feb/21/personal-explanations to the House of Commons (21 February 1938) detailing his resignation from the government as Foreign Secretary
"The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization" (1942).
Extra-judicial writings
Indicating with a reserved gesture that this was just the sort of loony thing I should have expected her to think as a child, I returned to the point.
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)