Childhood Quotes

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

I had a great childhood. I had such fun.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.

In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

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

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

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

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.