Quotes About Childhood

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

And of all the rooms in my childhood, God was the largestand most empty.

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Humans have so many concerns about being grown-up. Emotions are emotions, whether you're an adult or a child.

I'm like a rifle that's a little out of date but very accurate: when I love, there's a strong recoil, back to childhood, and it hurts.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.