Quotes About Childhood

One of the best investments we can make in a child's life is high-quality early education.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor!' Doctor Luvvie was the dream. I was Doc McStuffins before it was a thing.

The day I was born, I knew I was going to act! Okay, that can sound a bit exaggerated, but I knew I want to enter films when I started understanding the world of films and saw my father going on sets. Maybe when I was just a kid.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.

We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I did not grow up with any literature in the house at all.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

I remember laughing so hard as a kid.

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter - the best place to start is with your own childhood.

When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.

None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.

I wish I'd known what type of learner I was as a child - I could have done better.

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

Well, when I was at Leeds it was the best and worst time of my career, because when I was a kid it was my ambition to play for Middlesbrough, where I was born, and my dream to play for Leeds, and everyone said I couldn't have two teams.

I have been left-wing always, from childhood.