Quotes About Childhood

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Si apoi, in clipa despartirii, ne cuprinde deodata emotia. Ne stapanim lacrimile, dar ele ne curg pe dinauntru. N-am sa-i mai aud rasul de copil. De el se va bucura, atunci cand o va face sa rada, cel care mi-a luat locul.

Es difícil reponerse de una infancia infeliz, pero puede resultar imposible reponerse de una infancia protegida.

Ya no hay adultos, lo único que queda son niños de todas las edades. Escribir un libro sobre mi infancia es, pues, hablar de mí en presente. Peter Pan es amnésico.

It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that's lilac, there's an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn't mask it with a common name or function.

C'est que, pour l'enfant, une promenade est une identité complète, un visage, une personne. Ce ne sont pas des routes qui se croisent à des carrefours, ou des sentiers sous un même ciel.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

I want a horse! I do! Of course. I'd ride it all day, Up, up, and away!

We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

The kind of people who spoke mostly Yiddish, which is a combination of German and phlegm. This is a language of coughing and spitting; until I was eleven, I wore a raincoat.

Please, let them be little, 'Cause they're only that way for a while. Give them hope, give them praise, Give them love every day. Let 'em cry, let 'em giggle, Let 'em sleep in the middle, Oh, but let them be little.

Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

I am half child, half ancient.

I'm not big on Halloween. I never have been. As a kid my parents would send me out to collect for UNICEF, which just screws up the whole holiday.

When a child is young," Burck explained one night (perhaps he was relating Hauber's analogy), "you can catch him if he falls. Then he

I was a poor kid. My mom saved money by shopping at the Army-Navy Surplus store, but I felt stupid going to kindergarten dressed as a Chinese General.

When we were kids and would play hide and seek you found me before anyone else. Always. I thought you were magic." "No magic, Nina. You were the only one I ever looked for.

Some, like Chaplin, Polanski and Michael Jackson, found teenage companions in middle age, trying to retrieve or reconfigure a childhood they never had.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance–waiting for the bathroom.