Childhood Quotes - Page 10

• In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Noses

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• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

  Christopher Morley

  Children, Years, Four

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, Wildside Press LLC

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• For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

  Lois Wyse

  Dream, Mean, Matter

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• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  Bill Bryson

  Night, Ice Cream, Grew Up

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.115, VNR AG

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fear, Educational, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

  Frances Mayes

  Order, Obstacles, Sometimes

  Frances Mayes (2014). “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir”, p.245, Broadway Books

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• That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Children, Unhappy Childhood, Decay

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Talent

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• Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Destiny, Way

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Life, Children, Learning

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  E. B. White

  People, Tolerance, Mind

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• I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Friendship, Dog, Long

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• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Solitude

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• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Age

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• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Hope, Flower

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• It's never to late for a happy childhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  Life, Late, Happy Childhood

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• The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Today, Tomorrow

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• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Puppets

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Children, Faults, Loses

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