Quotes About Childhood

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Everything depends on upbringing.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

It is high time that we had a subject called Childrening, as we have one called Parenting!

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom!

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.