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Quotes About Childhood

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.
~ Deborah Davis
As a kid, when I would hurt myself my mom would rub alcohol on it. Which is why I drink, I'm just putting alcohol on where it hurts the most...The inside.
~ Unknown
Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.
~ Unknown
I'm so sorry. I just can't stop seeing you as the kid who lived on my block and spent my childhood with. I mostly need you as a friend and to add romance, it might ruin our friendship forever even if we'll be together.
~ Unknown
I remember being jealous of Morgy's blood type when we were little. She had the cool one and I had like B negative.
~ Unknown
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
~ Unknown
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
~ Richard Paul Evans
After I was born, he tried to keep me inside as much as he could.
~ Madeline Miller
So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure you do not dishonor me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
Je pensai : Je ne pourrai pas supporter ce monde un instant de plus. "Alors fabriques-en un autre, mon enfant.
~ Madeline Miller
So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself. "You have always been the worst of my children," he said. "Be sure to not dishonour me." "I have a better idea. I will do as I please, and when you count your children, leave me out.
~ Madeline Miller
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better
~ Magda Gerber
As well as sniffing my mum's precious bottles, I loved squirting the perfume onto myself, so from a very young age I walked around in a rather overpowering haze of scent. My father started calling me Fragrant Cloud, after his favorite rose- hence the name of this blog.
~ Unknown
If you're looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations...then your sexuality will form around that fact.
~ Maggie Nelson
She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
She cannot imagine how it might be, to see him again. He would be a child and she is now grown, almost a woman. What would he think? Would he recognise her now, if he were to pass her in the street, this boy who will for ever remain a boy? Several
~ Maggie O'Farrell
It has been drummed into her by physicians and priests alike that the character of a child is determined by the mother's thoughts at the moment of conception.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
the time I spent in hospital is the hinge on which my childhood swung.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
What would happen if I were to become A child again? And I returned to you… and you returned to me.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
In books you'll find your light, and by this light you may cross from one shore of love to another, from your childhood into your adulthood
~ Maia Wojciechowska
To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?
~ Maile Meloy
People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.
~ Maile Meloy
Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.
~ Maj Sjowall