Childhood Quotes

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that be...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. Th...

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

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you...

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, t...

The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in th...

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

I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer. I lay in...

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent wha...

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm ...

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that i...

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourse...

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the ear...

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got w...

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, ...

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organiza...

Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the b...

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a ...

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she ...

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gif...

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and,...

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

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You ...

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be th...

Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what ...

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later...

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

Old age is the new childhood.

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers...

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, p...

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep i...

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing ba...

Making up for lost time?""Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of impor...

Making up for lost time?" "Yes," I say. "A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of impo...

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

Childhood is a short season.

There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she wa...

The Children's HourBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pa...

Lola writes in her notebook: Leaf-fleas are even worse. Someone said, They don't bite people, becaus...

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected w...

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family a...

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but w...

That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working ...

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strang...

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabular...

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, every...

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Sto...

The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember...

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ...

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

To be moved confuses the soul. One cannot convey these kinds of memories any more than the events of...

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous,...

Play is the work of childhood.

Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exception...

She had other favourite lines. Our gas oven blew up. The repairman came out and said he didn't like ...

At this time in his life Zinkoff sees no difference between the stars in the sky and the stars in hi...

Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep but it's not so badI don't worry and I don't weep. In fact I...

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

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present t...

their suburbia house in Brentwood" was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-yea...

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at th...

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The differe...

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between ...

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at th...

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The differe...

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between ...

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never...

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first lea...

O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,Or that boys would change their minds and forsa...

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after ...

And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Th...

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes fr...

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been gr...

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and w...

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the huma...

Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roof...

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...