1. When you’re a little kid, you are small, your life is small – and you’re terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.-Janet Fitch
2. Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.-Paula Poundstone
3. When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.-Amy Winehouse
4. A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.-Jack Benny
5. I’m a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.-John Slattery
6. When you’re a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.-Garrison Keillor
7. I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.-Bo Burnham
8. I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother’s house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that’s pretty remarkable.-Floyd Norman
9. I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.-Joseph Gordon-Levitt
10. I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn’t understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.-Laura Benanti
11. When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.-Eminem
12. What’s fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.-Henry Louis Gates
13. That’s the point I’m trying to get across in ‘Little’: Kids can do anything, and that’s how adults need to see things, too.-Marsai Martin
14. You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.-Herman Edwards
15. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you’re so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.-Leslie Mann