Childhood Quotes
...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.
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.
The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.
I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen
There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
I never thought of a future without you. That was the reason I always lived in the present, hoping I would find you someday.
The day she was born, her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.
Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle
He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show up when he wasn't around. Or when he was on the toilet, taking care of a number two.
In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You
The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.
High school will probably be better. I mean, some kids will still be jerks, but it's not so bad if you have at least one good friend. Someone who gets you.
Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.
But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.
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.
And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.
Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood.
It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society
Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song. "Wherever I go the grass grows greener.
The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.
Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.
I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.
Don't you find it odd, " she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…
on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
Maybe people do like wine. It's not as nice as just eating the grapes, but it's okay.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before us was not the f
Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.
From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures
Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...
A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.
Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.