Quotes About Childhood

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Having a teddy bear doesn't mean you are immature, sometimes they are the only ones that don't laugh when you cry.

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.