Quotes About Childhood

don't spend your time chasing after an inspiration that once chanced your way. It is as unrecoverable as yesterday, as the joys of childhood, as first love. Bend your efforts to creating a new and fresh inspiration for today. There is no reason to suppose that it will be less good than yesterday's. It may not be as brilliant. But you have the advantage of possessing it today.

Puck laughed, and it wasn't like that weird high-pitched giggle she'd heard out of children before, the one that begged the question: why would one possibly tickle a child just to elicit that noise?

I think the words you're searching for are 'Thank you, oh great and wonderful sorceress.' " He narrowed his eyes. "You saved me from falling now. If only you'd shown me the same consideration when I was a boy." "If only you'd warned my family that yours was coming over for tea and decapitation! What else have you got? I can do this all day!

Lanthe's nieces were super brilliant, could already trace. If they sensed danger—or bath time—they would simply teleport their diapered butts away.

I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household." With una madre loca, Catholic to the core.

There's you. There's me. We love each other, and we have since we were kids, so we should be together. The end.

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous

was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing

I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.