Childhood Quotes

• Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Unhappy, Temples

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• If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Your Children, Heal, Ifs

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• Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

  Jerry Smith

  Beautiful, Seasons, Childhood Memories

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• The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

  Clint Eastwood

  Animal, Innocence

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• Old age is but a second childhood.

  Aristophanes

  Children, Age, Old Age

  Clouds (1417) (transl. Thomas Mitchell)

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• In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

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• Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Children, Blessed, Heaven

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life Is, Whole Life, Greater

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Fatherhood, Realizing

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Moments, Astonishing

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

  Victor Hugo

  Memories, Disappointment, Fire

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

  Bill Cosby

  Essence, Play, Comedy

  Twitter post from Nov 11, 2009

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• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  William Stafford

  Dance, Children, Kids

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Play is really the work of childhood.

  Fred Rogers

  Play, Children Playing, Work And Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Where We Come, Alive

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• Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

  Austin O'Malley

  Age, Connections

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