Quotes About Childhood

Reassured, we left their bedroom without understanding-- or wanting to admit-- that what a child learns first isn't the act but the gestures that accompany the act. And although it may also help them learn, this ostentatious show of reading is primarily intended to reassure them and please us.

Signorine, non è certo sotto le specie del vocabolario e della sintassi che la Letteratura inizia a sedurci. Ricordate semplicemente come le Lettere entrano nella nostra vita. Nella più tenera età, appena non ci viene più cantata la canzone che fa sorridere e addormentare il neonato, si apre l'era dei racconti. Il bambino li beve come prima beveva il latte. Pretende il seguito e la ripetizione dell'incanto; è un pubblico implacabile ed eccelso.

Isabelle [era] la piccola prosivendola che dai tempi immemorabili della loro infanzia considerava il libro l'indispensabile materasso dell'anima.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

Adults love to ask children idiotic questions so that we can chuckle when they give us idiotic answers.

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.7 So, like shrewd politicians, they ignore the question they are asked and answer the question they can.

uno viaja siempre con el niño que fue.

Throughout the eighties, kidnapping was deployed as an empty threat by overworked, exhausted parents who wanted to keep us close enough to elude Child Protective Services but far enough away to not ever have to see, hear, or smell anything we were playing with.

At eight years old, I already felt the imbalance of a world that never wanted me to forget that I had nothing.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.

Ulazimo u voz sa svojim smešnim prtljagom, vu?emo sa sobom ?ergu svoga lutalaštva, žalosnu pri?u mog detinjstva.

O ?emu još govore njeni paragrafi, prazne rubrike koje je ispisivala nevidljivim mastilom mašta de?aka?

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

questo passato inimitabile che è l'infanzia di un poeta e di una poesia.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

I had a dad you know.

Many children use an alternative vocabulary for complex disease names. Hence, some say "smiling mighty Jesus" in place of spinal meningitis or "Luke and Leia" instead of leukemia.

tra-la-la!-captain underpants

Only one thing can help us now," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "Rubber doggy doo-doo," said George.

There was a time when the human race did not have technology. This time was called "the 1950s." I was a child then, and it was horrible. There were only three TV channels, and at any given moment at least two of them were showing men playing the accordion in black and white.

He had never lost his temper since his childhood except once — almost — in Durthing. That burst of fury had frightened him, but it had still not taught him what a jotunn rage could be. Now he felt it in its full adult form for the first time. It was wonderful, irresistible, intoxicating. He might regret this after, for as long as he might live, but now that did not