Quotes About Childhood

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly made me want to be an actress.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness. Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Children do push away in order to establish themselves as autonomous in this phase. However, typically they do not push far. They still want closeness, lap-sitting, singing games, and stories. They are continuing to learn more about their parents and themselves and are building relationships—not building a wall.

I had seen a photograph of Sara at two. In it, her hair is platinum and falls around her face in happy disarray. She is dressed in yellow. Babyhood clings to her still and in the sunlight she appears incandescent. She is golden and delicious, sweet as a lemon drop. But her father never asks to see her.

When the coach set me down before that avenue of trees – straight and stern with cicadas screaming in the tall branches – I saw no welcome for a starved brat missing her mama.

Trying to rescue your parents from their worst devils is hard on kids, you know? Makes 'em either mean or saintly or both.

The nature of unleavened childhood is so open to magic and so quiet.

In all my memories, my father is unfailingly cheerful. It's my mother who is often unhappy, whose unhappiness I dread because I absorb it, as if I were a lightning rod grounding her sadness in my chest. When

like sisters everywhere. With personalities shaped by birth order, we are the keepers of each other's secrets and protectors of each other's childhood memories. We are givers and receivers of female wisdom and are constantly learning from each other.

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Bobby - Age 5

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

If a child connects being hurt with being bad, weak, unable to cope, or constantly surrounded by threat, there is no room left for inner spiritual growth. For without a sense of safety, spirit remains out of reach; one is forever trying simply to feel secure in this world, yet that security cannot be achieved without overcoming the imprints of early childhood.

you practice lifelong wellness, beginning as early as childhood, the many threats that attack us from middle age onward can be defeated—the secret is to act before any sign of threat appears. This is known as "incremental medicine

Nada solidifica la memoria como las emociones. Cuando somos niños, aprendemos sin esfuerzo porque los jóvenes se muestran apasionados y entusiastas ante el aprendizaje.

Another example: When you watch a young child who is playing with complete focus and yet totally carefree, it's hard not to feel a tug. Doesn't the child's innocence seem palpable at that moment? Can't you feel in yourself—or yearn to feel—the same delight in play? Doesn't the child's tiny body seem as fragile as a soap bubble and yet bursting with life itself, something immense, eternal, never to be defeated?

If you practice lifelong wellness, beginning as early as childhood, the many threats that attack us from middle age onward can be defeated—the secret is to act before any sign of threat appears.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.