"Don't grow up. It's a trap."

"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better." - Doctor Who

"You're never too old to be young." - Snow White

"At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling." - Shanti

"Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American proverb

"What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn." - African proverb

"A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child." - Pythagoras

"It takes a village to raise a child." - African proverb

"A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel it's warmth."

"Es erfordert große Anstrengungen einem gebrannten Kind zu zeigen, dass Feuer auch wärmen kann."

"It's not healing to see your childhood home. It will help you measure whether you're broken... how and why, assuming you want to know." - Hannibal s3e03

"Nearly all villains came from twisted childhoods, but not all children with twisted childhoods grew up to be villains."

"Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit."

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - Albus Dumbledore

"Little girls with dreams become women with vision."

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

"Blessed are the weird people. The poets and misfits, the artists, the writers and the makers of music, the dreamers of dreams, children, wanderers and vagabonds, the outsiders. For they force us to see the world differently."

"If you think you are too small to make a difference you haven't spent a night with a mosquito." - African proverb

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." – Galadriel

"Suspicious how teens are 'too young to figure out their sexuality' unless it's heterosexual."

"Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise. A small child enters Valhalla. The battle they lost was 'hiding from an alcoholic father'. Odin sees the flinch when he slams the cup and refrains from doing it again. He hears the child's pain, no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival."

"Very early in my life it was too late." - Marguerite Duras

"Some people survive chaos and that is how they grow. And some people thrive in chaos, because chaos is all they know."