Quotes About Childhood

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Frankly, I think the chances of having a happy childhood while you're still a kid going through it are pretty slim.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

In our village back home, marriages were always between people who had known each other their whole lives. And all the boys I had known were dead. So I thought I would never get married. I thought I could never marry someone I hadn't known from when I was a child.

A infância não vai do nascimento até certa idade,e a certa altura a criança está crescida,deixando de lado as coisas de criança.A infância é o reino onde ninguém morre.

koodaki ghalamroe padshahii ast ke hich kas dar an nakhahad mord

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

pues sé que el subconsciente, además de desvirtuar nuestra infancia, tergiversar nuestros afectos, recordarnos lo que ansiamos olvidar, revelarnos nuestra abyecta condición y destrozarnos, en suma, la vida, cuando se le antoja y a modo de compensación, hace las veces de despertador.

Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun.

Grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.

It was nice growing up with someone like you — someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.

Mommies are just big little girls.

Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them.

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice — especially when she's taking a nap.

I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school.

I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers — turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and all because he kissed me good-night!

A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow into manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with its kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.