Quotes About Childhood

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

English I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Our innocence had been replaced by fear and we had become monsters. There was nothing we could do about it.

I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think

I stayed awake all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover the happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Mali ljudi, koje mi zovemo deca, imaju svoje velike bolove i duge patnje, koje posle kao odrasli i mudri ljudi zaboravljaju. Upravo, gube ih iz vida. A kad bismo mogli da se spustimo natrag u detinjstvo, kao u klupu osnovne škole iz koje smo davno izišli, mi bismo ih opet ugledali. Tamo dole, pod tim uglom, ti bolovi i te patnje žive i dalje i postoje kao svaka stvarnost.

Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of the negative ego.

A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.