Quotes About Childhood

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

I didn't have any pets growing up.

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.

A baby is a beautiful, blooming, flower that can smile, sing, and dance.

It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.

To see the magic of life look through the wondrous eyes of a child.

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul,

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

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

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.