Childhood Quotes
Natasa Pantovic Nuit
A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to help children grow into Inspired Adults, we wish them to carry the Youthfulness of their Souls, and the Wonders of Childhood into their old age.
2217 Svetlana Alexievich
В каждом из нас есть сосуд любви, если он не заполнится в детстве, то всю жизнь будешь мучиться от жажды и неутоления. И не спастись, не уберечься. В ее сосуде было только на донышке... Бабушкино...
1246 Ruskin Bond
and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
2902 Roald Dahl
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
2005 Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
4091 P.G. Wodehouse
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
3341 Anne Frank
Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!
1978 Rudyard Kipling
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
4307 Raghad Khalil
as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?
1590 Evan Meekins
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.
2292 Roberta Pearce
. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.
4005 Anne Frank
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
4645 Ram Mohan
Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.
3406 Lailah Gifty Akita
Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.
3047 Ryū Murakami
This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.
1057 Scott K. Edinger
A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.
2067 P.J. Roscoe
The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.
1704 Markus Zusak
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
3044 Scott Dikkers
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
1999 Garth Nix
My parents are going to kill me!"
"That seems rather harsh...
4197 George Carlin
My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm fuckin' serious!
2602 C. JoyBell C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
2627 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
3869 John Boyne
He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.
1451 Toni Maguire
I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.
1340 Alison Espach
All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.
2857 Simon Van Booy
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
4831 Betsy Cornwell
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age.
3053 Neil Gaiman
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
3711 Charles Addams
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
2272 Marisa De Los Santos
I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen
4074 John Steinbeck
Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.
3004 A.S. Neill
No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.
2667 Dave Matthes
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
1994 Pat Cunningham Devoto
No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.
2559 Aliki
The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.
4199 Maud Hart Lovelace
In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.
2743 Lailah Gifty Akita
What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.
1880 Maurice Sendak
Each month is gay,
Each season nice,
When eating
Chicken soup
With rice
1655 John Clare
O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,
Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;
But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys
4851 Jim Henson
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
3438 Keith Richards
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.
1170 E.M. Forster
School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
1324 Caitlín R. Kiernan
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
2657 L.R. Knost
It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
3656 Charles F. Glassman
Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.
1791 CL Bennett
the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share
4100 Lailah Gifty Akita
The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.
3922 Lailah Gifty Akita
Children act on the words they hear.
May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.
May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.
3285 Amit Kalantri
The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.
1311 Christopher Earle
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.
2387 Emily Brontë
The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.
4552 Neil DeGrasse Tyson
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.
3135 Adriana Trigiani
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
2447 Mizuki Nomura
There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.
2301 Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.
4320 Steve Rasnic Tem
I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.
4632 Judy Blume
I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.
1931 Dean Koontz
Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
3774 John Steinbeck
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer - and what trees and seasons smelled like - how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
2986 Richelle E. Goodrich
It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
3222 Louise Glück
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory
3353 J.U. Scribe
For him, it appeared he could freeze
the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his
hands like water.
1766 Ruth Ozeki
Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.
1748 Alfred Hitchcock
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
1952 Maurice Sendak
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
2853 Jenny Wingfield
They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.
3105 Carolyn Byers Ruch
Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.
2113 Patrick Yee
Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.
3445 Luisa Weiss
So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books.
2123 Chelsey Philpot
Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it’s frustrations and confusions, too.
3405 Sanhita Baruah
In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.
A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.
2844 AnnaMarie Ralph
I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.
1151 Álvaro Siza
Every child likes to take a pencil to make a mark. Everybody makes beautiful things when they are three, four, or five years old. Most people lose that spontaneity; I think that always happens. Some are able to win a second spontaneity.
2410 Rudolfo Anaya
Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.
2268 Roman Payne
The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.
3615 Chelsea Handler
Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.
4800 Richard Louv
An environment-based education movement-at all levels of education-will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
2778 Richard Louv
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.
4746 Sofía Segovia
Siempre flotaban en el aire los perfumes de los dulces de leche y nuez que hacía mi abuela, los de sus conservas y mermeladas, los del tomillo y el epazote que crecían en macetas en el jardín, y más recientemente los de naranjas, azahares y miel.
1465 Mikhail Lermontov
I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again
4220 Italo Calvino
That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.
4097 Italo Calvino
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
2867 Maurice Sendak
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
3171 Neil Gaiman
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
2627 Pat Conroy
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
3910 Harley King
I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.
2609 Margery Williams
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
2880 Dan Simmons
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
2200 Brielle A. Marino
That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.
2652 Kim Stanley Robinson
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
2142 Patrick Harpur
What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.
3722 Orson Scott Card
While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
2979 Alice Miller
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.
4895 C. JoyBell C.
And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!
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