Quotes About Childhood

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

Apparently, I used to bite, scratch and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me 'Tiger.'

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at first in the Army and then in the coal mines. My mother had four children by the time she was 23 so money was always tight.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten. That a child can laugh without reason, that he can jump around for no reason, that he can become an exuberant burst of aliveness – that's life.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

There is a saying, 'it's never too late to have a happy childhood'. I'd rephrase that. I'd say, it's never too late to stop a difficult childhood from turning us into unhappy adults.

In a culture that often views a child in terms of the expense in time and money he will cost in his lifetime, how important it is to intentionally recognize the infinite value of a tiny human being, created with the very imprint and image of God on his life, and to understand that this little one's life will have consequences for eternity.

Between 15 months and 6 years of age, the cerebral cortex appears to double in size, with synaptic density (a synapse being the point of communication between two adjacent nerve cells) reaching its peak at about 3-3½ years of age, a level 50 per cent higher than it was at birth, or will be at puberty.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it, and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures telling our brief story, but what will last, beyond all of it, is the place.

I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

They weren't like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I

Children's literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and turns. The child armed with the torch of knowledge, awareness and guidance must cross this bridge and set foot to the intense harshness of the bigger world." An In-Depth Analysis of Educational Deadlock

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.