Childhood Quotes
Childhood Quote of the day
I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.
No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once moreThe little feet along the floor.
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.
Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?
The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.
That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.
Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.
I'm not going to have a husband anyway, " said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.
