Quotes About Childhood

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

It takes a village to raise a child.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Your children get only one childhood.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does