Quotes About Childhood

Where we grew up, we didn't learn how to live. We learned how to bury the land, seal life off. There was an unacknowledged backdrop to being a kid on land that was fast turning into strip malls, when you loved trees and a silent corporate presence kept showing up to knock the trees down. It was the helpless sense that everything you ever loved could be destroyed, without debate.

but she was four years, three months, and sixty-one days old when she died.

The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails behind, always a child squinting into strong sunlight and a grim-faced adult skulking in shadow. What must it have been like to grow up in that silence?

Qu'est-ce qu'un rire après tout? Une explosion d'enfance partagée.

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

In those olden times you didn't have to be a space scientist to manage the gadget that flicked your TV on and off, that ridiculous thingamabob that now comes with twenty push buttons, God knows what for. Doctors made house calls. Rabbis were guys. Kids were raised by their moms instead of in child-care pens like piglets. Software meant haberdashery.

The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross

Because the knowledge of counting, adding, subtracting, and the like is regarded as a preparation for "life" we are taught it mechanically from early childhood. The practice takes precedence over the principles. No doubt this introduction to life is not especially cheering.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

Anne Frank wasn't a star pupil. She was a likeable child. Sometimes I'd bump into her in the mornings on her way to school. Then she'd sometimes tell me stories that she'd made up together with her father. They were always really funny stories. She told me a lot about her father, but not much about her mother and sister. I also knew that she wanted to be a writer. Maybe she would have been…

When a child is rebuked or disciplined by the mother, it feels no resentment towards her; while it resents being punished by the father.

Çocuklu?un en bütük zenginli?i,ne negin sorumsuzlu?u,ne ana kuca??n?n sonsuz güveni,ne de çocukluk denildi?inde ilk akla gelen benzeri ?eyler galiba;bence,onun en büyük zenginli?i,gelece?e inanç duyabilme duygusu.Ancak bunu yitiren çocuk,ba?ka biri olmay? ba?ar?r.ba?ka biri olmak büyümektir.

Yaln?zca insanlar büyür,yaralar büyümez,yaralar çocuk kal?r.

S?r demek yaln?zl?k demektir,hele küçük bir çocuk için büyük yaln?zl?k,erken yaln?zl?kt?r...?nsan?n kendine "sorun" olmas?,ba?kalar? yüzünden de?il de,kendi yüzünden ac? çekmeye ba?lamas?,o ya?lardaki bir çocuk için ta??makta zorlanaca?? erken bir ezad?r.

just because one suffers from depression, from childhood memories, or from whatever does not necessarily mean that one is not in the grip of a power complex!

Life is a children's book of the infantilism of childhood traumas, with three-dimensional pictures. The scenery of the script is all ready in advance.

Life is an impression of the softest and most tender notes and melodies of childhood, to the coarsest, schizoid, steep notes of old age.

Money is an evolutionary, infantile stagnation in brain development. At the expense of money, a person seeks to return to childhood and stay there.

Everything seems possible during childhood, but things start to change as we age and face the realities of the universe.

The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.

There is no sane individual who is addicted to suffering, unless you have been brainwashed since childhood.

Those who claim that life begins at forty, they can't recall history, that Alexander became and died as the greatest without reaching this peak age. They also do not know those who die in their childhood.

We are now visiting and playing with several planets as a child plays with his toys.

While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have intensified with each decade of use she can't get it out of of her head that while she is speeding around in circles waiting to be told when to stop other kids are flying to the moon.