Childhood Quotes - Page 4

• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

  Deborah Davis

  Christian, Doe, Mary

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• There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Life, Uplifting, Laughter

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• Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Mirrors, Afterlife

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.34

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.
  [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sleep, Reason

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• Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
  In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
  Who shall become a master of art,
  An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
  Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
  For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, School, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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

  Bayard Taylor

  Dream, Children, Waiting

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.80

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• Each one could be a Jesus mild,
  Each one has been a little child,
  A little child with laughing look,
  A lovely white unwritten book;
  A book that God will take, my friend,
  As each goes out at journey's end.

  John Masefield

  Jesus, Children, Book

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Passion, Government, Names

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• For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Glowing, Sound, Littles

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• But still when the mists of doubt prevail,
  And we lie becalmed by the shores of age,
  We hear from the misty troubled shore
  The voce of children gone before.
  Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Lying, Drawing

  Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.193, VM eBooks

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• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Fatherhood, Nostalgia

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

  Susie Bright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

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• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

  Bill Bryson

  Boston, Insane, Toys

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.154, VNR AG

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• A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

  Will Ferrell

  People, Brain, Events

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Long, Ironic

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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• The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Men, Infancy Is

  A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8

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• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Fatherhood, Age, Shrinking

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• But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

  David Gest

  Running, Alcohol, Demon

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Golf, Games, Age

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• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

  Paula Danziger

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

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• If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

  Peter Handke

  Writing, Design, Storyteller

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• My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Decision, Actors

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• My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

  Peter Jurasik

  Sweet, New York, Class

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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