Childhood Quotes

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  • 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.

    Children   Writing   Race  
  • We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger. There's a prophesy somewhere that at a certain point in history, children will be gray. It's weird to think about, but it's possible.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

    Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America
  • Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

    Baby   Children   Men  
    Giacomo Leopardi (2013). “Zibaldone”, p.288, Macmillan
  • After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.

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  • Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

    "The Drama of the Gifted Child". Book by Alice Miller, 1979.
  • Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

    "Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel". Book by Thomas Fensch, p. 96, 1997.
  • It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

    "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.
  • Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  • It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

    Dog   People   Childhood  
  • You never know how things are going to fit. So, you don't count your eggs until they hatch. You can't pre-project that. I mean, this was literally like a childhood fantasy of mine, to be able to work in action. You know, growing up on Disney films like Pocahontas and wanting to enter into that, or Aladdin and how he's fighting - being your own hero, being your own heroine is like every one's dream.

    Dream   Growing Up   Hero  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

    "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
  • When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of my childhood, I loved them. Like, Rifle Man, I absolutely adored. So, I think everything comes in a cycle.

    Kids   Men   Thinking  
    "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.
  • Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

  • The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

    Childhood   Lama   Dalai  
    Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu
  • Genius is childhood recaptured.

  • A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

  • Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

    Life   Baby   Time  
  • the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

    Mom   Brother   Jesus  
  • I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

  • Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

  • I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

    Art   Fun   Book  
  • There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

  • There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

    Running   Wall   Light  
    Vlada Petrić, Ingmar Bergman (1981). “Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman”, Redgrave Publishing Company
  • I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.

    "Banish the bikini, bring on the grill" By Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2004.
  • People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.

    Teacher   Years   People  
  • I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

    Loss   Childhood   Lost  
    Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.239, Penguin UK
  • Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

  • I gave up my childhood for a career.

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