Child Childhood Quotes

#1. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us

Isobelle Carmody

#2. You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

Mitch Albom

#3. Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#4. Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it ...

Akiane Kramarik

#5. It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Lev Grossman

#6. They'd have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they'd been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

Jenny Wingfield

#7. In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

Maurice Sendak

#8. I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

Dasha Zhukova

#9. We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

Gary Shteyngart

#11. What he had wanted the most as a child was a family, a family that treated him like a person and respected his space, his body, and his place in the world. He was never held with love until Mrs. D, who came along so many years into his childhood that he was almost out of it

Debra Anastasia

#12. Age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#13. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Margery Williams

#14. The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Jane Smiley

#15. Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

Alice Miller

#16. Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#17. 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.

Lew Wallace

#18. Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

Abel Korzeniowski

#19. It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

China Mieville

#20. The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.

Lewis Buzbee

#21. [ ... ]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

Plato

#22. The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Bret Harte

#23. As a child, she'd always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn't ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Tao Lin

#24. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...

Muse

#25. The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#26. Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

Gaston Bachelard

#27. What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Lin Yutang

#28. But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me.

Bayard Taylor

#29. Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

Stephen King

#30. You see yourself as if old and wise.
I see you really miss your childhood.

Toba Beta

#31. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Anthony Horowitz

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

Dave Pelzer

#33. A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

Corrie Ten Boom

#34. Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.

Jiro Taniguchi

#35. Their suburbia house in Brentwood was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need.

Joan Didion

#36. Father never approved of my toys
Saw them as child's playthings
I was a child

They were my world
I ruled there
And he stepped on them
Destroying them

And in turn
Destroyed me
I should have been left to play
Now I must step on everything

T.P. Louise

#37. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.

Bell Hooks

#38. The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.

Mary Norton

#39. The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

#40. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Erin Merryn

#41. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...

Asa Don Brown

#42. Every person will become three time child in their life.
One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.
It's never be gone.

Savan Solanki

#43. What I'm suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

Tim Macartney-Snape

#44. Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

Michael Ian Black

#45. I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Geraldine Brooks

#46. Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

#47. I just ... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of ... rather an introverted child, probably.

Helen Garner

#48. Wasteland is land which is worthless
for cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionally
bruised in a way that can never heal.

Pankaj Suneja

#49. Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Haruki Murakami

#50. Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.

Carl Sagan

#51. We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.

Ann Schlee

#52. 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.

Ela Bhatt

#53. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

Joy Behar

#54. When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Kevin Nealon

#55. ...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

E. Sue Blume

#56. Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#57. Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

#58. That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Ruth Reichl

#59. Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Penn Badgley

#61. My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.

Action Bronson

#62. If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.

Erin Merryn

#63. When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

John Le Carre

#64. If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in
parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

Tom Harkin

#65. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

#66. A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laura Beck

#67. I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

John Travolta

#68. Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

Chandra Wilson

#69. Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.

Sheryl Sandberg

#70. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.

Elizabeth Spencer

#71. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser

#72. I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#73. There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

D.E. Stevenson

#74. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Heather O'Neill

#75. The triumph of the will recreates, as its Utopia, the world of early childhood, and that is a world of nightmare, impotence and fear, in which the child fantasises, out of its own powerlessness, an absolute supremacy.

Angela Carter

#76. Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Ian Fleming

#77. I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe and doubt for all else.

Meia Geddes

#78. I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited.

Neil Gaiman

#79. Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way
and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#80. 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?

Delmore Schwartz

#81. Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

Storm Constantine

#82. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#83. Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

Truman Capote

#84. There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#85. Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.

Margaret Atwood

#86. I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Tim Curry

#87. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

Richard Simmons

#89. My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

Miru Kim

#90. And children are still the way you were ... as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#91. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

Vanessa Ferlito

#92. The child of civilization, remote from birth from wild nature and all her ways, is more susceptible to her grandeur than is her untutored son who has looked at her and lived close to her from childhood up, on terms of prosaic familiarity. The

Thomas Mann

#93. It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

William Faulkner

#94. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#95. Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked.

"Not if I can avoid it, no.

David Eddings

#96. Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long - a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man,

Arthur Schopenhauer

#97. For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

John Connolly

#98. The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Robert Breault

#99. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#100. Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child's insecurity screaming for love and attention.

Charles F. Glassman