Childhood Quotes

Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.

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?

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.

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

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.

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.

A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

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.

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

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.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

My childhood was a drag show!

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.

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!

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began...

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Does childhood really happen? Do we imagine it? Everyone remembers something else....

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.

The child I wasis just one breath away from me.

A child s a special possession from God.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Either I can go back to my childhood or my childhood can come forth to me. This is what I'm desperately wishes...

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

Never stop screaming, playing and laughing, it's part of our childhood wich will always be with us.

...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.

I'm still not sure if I was a victim or not... and if I was, who was my abuser?

The happy family is a myth for many.

The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then.

Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I’d never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, ‘He brings little angels like you, presents.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

She wished, as almost all kids wish at one point or another, that she could turn into a pterodactyl and fly away and never come back.

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.