Childhood Quotes - Page 9

• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Age, Kingdoms

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, Racist, Littles

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• Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Dream, Space, Sky

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• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Birthday, Age

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• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Artist, Paris

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• I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  Olivia Wilde

  Summer, Children, Growing Up

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

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• A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Growing Up, Fun

  "Danny, the Champion of the World". Book by Roald Dahl, 1975.

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• Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

  Florence Littauer

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Christian

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• I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

  Chester Bennington

  Dream, Stars, Rocks

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

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• There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

  Maria Callas

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

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• All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

  Samuel Richardson

  Views, Years, Fatherhood

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.960, Simon and Schuster

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

  William Golding

  Disease, Sickness, Grows

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• I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sex, Book, Eight

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• I've never outgrown my childhood.

  David McCallum

  Fatherhood

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• Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Children, Giving, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

  Herbert Gold

  Hurt, Children, Bird

  Herbert Gold (2017). “The Age of Happy Problems”, p.78, Routledge

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• We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Fate, Destiny

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

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• That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Children, Add, Actors

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• Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Growth, Easier

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cute, Family, Girl

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Life, Death, Time

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Intellectual

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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