Quotes About Childhood

Anger was days of courteous silence, and love was a word of courteous endearment. She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.

could think of his daughter only as a very small girl who had once sat beside him in a distant room and looked at him with solemn delight, as a lovely child who long ago had died.

Desde que tenía memoria, William Stoner había tenido obligaciones. A los seis años ordeñaba las vacas macilentas, alimentaba a los cerdos en el chiquero que estaba a pocos metros de la casa y juntaba

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

Kids are just a needle in your heart.

Un niño pequeño aprende algo nuevo cada día; un anciona olvida algo cada día. Los nombres desaparecen, las fechas ya no significan nada, las secuencias se tornan confusas y las caras borrosas. La primera infancia y la vejez son épocas agotadoras

some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them

Times have changed. People live longer, but that hasn't translated into longer childhoods.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

Sometimes my lack of memory (or, to put a positive spin on it, my surplus of forgetfulness) worries me, especially since it's not limited to my early childhood.

Well, crying's good. It prepares you for life. The more often I see children crying, the more often I think, "That's gonna be a healthy adult." That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying involved. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

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We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

entire floor was covered in thick, spongy blue mats like the ones in the gym at school, so you could jump around, fall down, do somersaults — anything! — without getting hurt. David's mom and dad

I had waited an eternity for this moment. My childhood fantasy was now coming true— I would be a dark angel of the night.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.