Quotes About Childhood

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.