Childhood Quotes
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.
Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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.
For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.