Childhood Quotes
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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
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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.
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.
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Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
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Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.
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I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.
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It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
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Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
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My father was in and out of jail throughout my childhood. He really wasn't in my life at all. Thankfully, I had two strong role models who guided me through those years.
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
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I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.
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Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
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For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
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Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
