Quotes About Childhood

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher than a child with no books.

Consider the kind of questions that kids ask. Sure, they may be silly or simplistic or out of bounds. But kids are also relentlessly curious and relatively unbiased. Because they know so little, they don't carry around the preconceptions that often stop people from seeing things as they are. When it comes to solving problems, this is a big advantage.

Harris argued, albeit gently, that parents are wrong to think they contribute so mightily to their child's personality. This belief, she wrote, was a "cultural myth." Harris argued that the top-down influence of parents is overwhelmed by the grassroots effect of peer pressure, the blunt force applied each day by friends and schoolmates.

Décadas de estudios han demostrado que un niño que nace en un entorno familiar adverso tiene muchas más probabilidades de convertirse en un delincuente.

Oscar, it's getting dark and it's starting to rain. We'll never find that mitten! Come inside, Annie. I made some hot chocolate for us, and I've got a biscuit for Oscar. Look! The rain is melting the snowman. But what's that spot on his chest? Gracious! Your snowman has a heart ! My mitten is the heart of the snowman!

Or perhaps the truth was that there is no Fate, no pattern, nothing at all except a tired man looking back and forgetting everything but this and that detail which the very act of memory composes into a fate. Eschenburg, remembering his childhood, wondered whether Fate was merely a form of forgetfulness.

Let no one tell me that childhood is lived in a timeless present. Rather it is a fever of futures, an ardor of perpetual anticipations.

Yes, well into the 19th century, in Sweden, one of the world's wealthiest countries, between a quarter and a third of all children died before their fifth birthday, and in some years the death toll was close to half.

Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209

We have come a long way to arrive at an age in which one-pound preemies are rescued with heroic surgery, children are not expected to be economically productive until their fourth decade, and violence against children has been defined down to dodgeball.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we'd say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let's not try to rewire them.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films...

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.