Quotes About Childhood

Oímos montones de historias a lo largo de la infancia y, cuando nos hacemos mayores, de repente descubrimos algo que no pasa la prueba olfativa. En cierto modo, son demasiado redondas.

Grown-ups get lonely at night, and they like to have someone to sleep with. Like Mom and Daddy do. I have my bear, she continued, referring to her favorite stuffed animal. So I don't get lonely.

If I'd grown up here,I'd have had headless ghosts for playmates and kept my room in a tower. Alan maneuvered around one of the winding curves that only added to the atmosphere. The sea was close enough so its scent and sound drifted in the open windows. There aren't any ghosts, though my father periodically threatened to import a few bloodthirsty ones from Scotland. With his lips just curved, he sent Shelby a quick sidelong look. He keeps his office in a tower room.

It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced … Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case … [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.

Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

Give me homesickness. Flash. Give me nostalgic childhood yearnings. Flash.

Parents, they'll screw you up every time.

Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.

Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos de tudo o que aconteceu com as mesmas famílias dos seriados de comédia. Temos os mesmos objetivos básicos. Todos nós temos os mesmos medos.

Jump to how life was when you were a baby and you could only eat baby food. You'd stagger over to the coffee table. You're up on your feet and you have to keep waddling along on those Vienna sausage legs or fall down. Then you get to the coffee table and bounce your big soft baby head on the sharp corner. You're down, and man, oh, man, it hurts. Still it isn't anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.

Z vlastního dÄ›tství si nepamatujeme skoro nic, zato si vzpomínáme na vÅ¡echno, co se dÄ›lo rodinám v seriálech.

Me, I'm six years old, again, and taking messages back and forth between my estranged parents. I hated this when I was six. I hate it now.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evoked. She had kept some books...which suggested to her that she was, or might be, a person of seriousness, a thinker in some seeping, ubiquitous way; and she had kept, too, a handful of children's books...that conjured for her an earlier, passionately earnest self.

There are the social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty... and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying degrees, as we finally relinquish childhood's clouds in glory to live, ever after, in our earthly realm

We wouldn't be proper children if we didn't disregard our parents' most vital instruction.

He's but a boy…with innocent eyes.

children will learn when they are ready to learn, not when we're ready to teach them.

The number of words spoken to a child had a strong correlation between the number of words that they heard in their first thirty months and their performance on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests as they got older.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.