Quotes About Childhood

What's the name of the book you're reading?' I asked. 'Tom Sawyer,' he said promptly. So I signed Mark Twain in his autograph book. He seemed quite happy.

But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses

It had been an occasion for reminiscing, but there are limits. And so my childhood falls into a black hole.

Mud is to jump in and slide in and yell dodoleedodoleedo.

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But there's no reason a child commits murder, just as there's no reason a child gets lost. What would it be - because his parents weren't watching him? That's not a reason, it's just a step in the process.

As he gazed at the distant stars on the screen, a deeply buried memory pushed its way into his consciousness. It was the memory of a wish, a wish to visit every star in the galaxy. But that wish, and the dreams that went with it, had belonged to someone else, a child who lived a long time ago and was no more. Those were the dreams of a boy named Anakin Skywalker.

T]he primary motive for the illness is the pleasure itself of remaining in the secure retreat of the childish situation once so unwillingly left behind.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Wyrzek?szy si? wszystkich przest?pstw wieku dzieci?cego, rozporz?dza? teraz du?? ilo?ci? wolnego czasu i nauczy? si? kierowa? si?y na ?ycie wewn?trzne.

Ben bu kad?n? yedi ya??mdan beri okudu?um kitaplardan, be? ya??mdan beri kurdu?um hayal dünyalar?ndan tan?yordum.

Per la prima volta fin dall'infanzia andai a dormire senza affliggermi per la mia esistenza vuota e insignificante, e mi addormentai senza disperarmi per la giornata appena trascorsa, che era solo una ripetizione della precedente e non sarebbe stata diversa nemmeno il giorno dopo.

As a child, I used to play football. Even during my school days, I didn't play cricket. I had also attended a few football trials. But my love for my mother and my mother's love for cricket is how I made the 22 yards my ultimate goal"

If you don't know how to keep yourself as a joyous, peaceful and loving human being, what can you do for your child? Your child will only imbibe your tensions, anger, anxiety and every other nonsense. If you are really concerned about your child, first you must be willing to transform yourself.

I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

We do ability grouping early on in childhood...if we look at young kids, in kindergarten and first grade, the teachers are confusing maturity with ability.

Me pregunto muchas veces si la infancia es un espejismo. Recurro tantas veces a ella que me da miedo pensar que posiblemente la haya deformado o idealizado. Desde que tengo conciencia de mí misma, he sabido que quería hacerme mayor viviendo como cuando era niña. Volverme adulta haciendo el camino a la inversa, regresar a lo que me rodeaba y me hizo tener tanto apego al campo. Soy lo que soy gracias a la infancia.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

A l'adolescence, on rêve du jour où l'on quittera ses parents, un autre jour ce sont vos parents qui vous quittent. Alors, on ne rêve plus qu'à pouvoir redevenir, ne serait-ce qu'un instant, l'enfant qui vivait sous leur toit, les prendre dans vos bras, leur dire sans pudeur qu'on les aime, se serrer contre eux pour qu'ils vous rassurent encore une fois.

Your childish clarity faded, and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. The world was persuasive and loud, and so you resigned yourself to conforming to its demands.

It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.