Childhood Quotes

Childhood Quote of the day

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

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.

Play is the work of childhood.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.