Childhood Quotes
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.
You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.
And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.
I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good day.
Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.
Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.
When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.
...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.
Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.
Sometimes, It's awesome to be childish with your partner .Otherwise you are missing out.
Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It's never be gone.
This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.
Interpersonal tensions can provide opportunities that transform an early childhood curriculum from pre-primary preparedness to sites of political practice.
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.
A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.
DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.
Trauma can have a masking effect.
Sinto que há uma estranha eternidade naquilo que amámos e foi destruído.(I feel that there lies a strange eternity in that which we loved but has been destroyed.)
The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.
No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk
Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.
Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.
I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.
Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.
Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.
When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.
the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share
to understand pretending, " Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.
Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.
The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter … gave rise to fresh insights.
Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.
It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.
These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.