Childhood Quotes - Page 3

• My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Roots, Fatherhood

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.111, Da Capo Press

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• One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Thinking, Happens

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

  Bill Watterson

  Children, People, Psychology

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• 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

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

  William Gibson

  Heart, Boys, Years

  William Gibson (1974). “A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness”, Scribner

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• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

  Charlie Sheen

  Jobs, Dad, Class

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Children, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Writing, Race

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• Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Long, Twenties

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.116

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

  Brian Aldiss

  Life, Kids, Unhappy Childhood

  "Billion Year Spree : The History of Science Fiction". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1973.

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• Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

  Max Muller

  Secret, Fatherhood, Mystery

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Fathers Day, Mother, Grateful

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• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

  Stanislav Grof

  Art, Animated, Not Interested

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

  Robert Breault

  Children, World, Spoiled

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• I didn't have a childhood.

  Pat Morita

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• There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Together, Groups, Time Together

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• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spring, Winter, Play

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.88

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• Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

  Homer

  Son, Ancestry, Praise

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.326

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• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Dream, Dad

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• We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

  David Elkind

  Mourning, Lost

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• No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

  Dante Hall

  Hurt, Worry, Scared

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• Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

  Tom Harkin

  Epidemics, Government, Years

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• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Football, Growing Up

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