Childhood Inspirational Quotes

#1. the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share

C.L. Bennett

#2. Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#3. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

Anne Frank

#4. And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

Jane Yolen

#5. When he throws one in from half court and raises his arms triumphantly, spectators' emotions rise in sympathetic gasps of joy; childhood revisited for a brief moment

Brian Triptow

#6. Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.

Yann W. Tanoe

#7. And I know that your childhood wasn't all that great-that you felt a lot of pain,and that you are in a lot of pain right now. But maybe you have to go through all that so you'll learn just how important having a happy childhood can be, so you will provide one for our daughter.

Matthew Quick

#8. 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.

Randy Pausch

#9. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.

Johnny Depp

#10. If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

Erik Erikson

#11. Those of us who have overcome so many adversities from a very young age, are privileged to be able to communicate profound insights and advice to others, speaking from a place of genuine confidence and knowing.

Miya Yamanouchi

#12. And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

C. JoyBell C.

#13. At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. Never let go of your childhood
dreams. Anything is possible if you believe it enough to work at it with all your heart.

Seye Oke

#15. Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

Ramani Durvasula

#16. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

Yassin Hall

#17. We shall give up the things of childhood --
gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Norman Spinrad

#18. Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

Erin McCarthy

#19. The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Anne Frank

#20. We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.

Matthew Quick

#21. Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Harper Lee

#22. I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Charley Pride

#23. The truth is that I can't remember a moment when I didn't want to be a writer. From childhood, I loved books, I loved stories and I loved writing my own

John Boyne

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

Charles F. Glassman

#25. To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

Janusz Korczak

#26. One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

Anais Nin

#27. We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

Tanya R. Liverman

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

L.K. Elliott

#30. Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked therein are often immeasurable, and make us truly wonder what became of those children we once were.

David E. Hilton

#31. The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Eugene Ionesco

#32. A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ...

Lynda Fisher

#33. Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. Never trust or take advice from someone who abandoned their childhood dream.

Chris Wheels

#35. It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

L.R. Knost

#36. Imagination, of course, is the money of childhood

Kinky Friedman

#37. Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#38. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

C.M. Stunich

#39. One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#40. When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers.

Felicia Day

#41. Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Christopher Earle

#42. Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Abhijit Naskar

#43. Thank you for this precious day,
These gifts you give to me,
My heart so full of love for you,
Sings praise for all I see,
Oh, sing, for every mother's love,
For every childhood tear,
Oh, sing, for all the stars above,
The peace beyond all fear

John Denver