Childhood Quotes

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

Christmas, Home, Happy

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud

Strong, Father, Cannot

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

Good, Divorce, Until

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

Money, Dad, Care

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Children, Learned

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

Friends, Play, Essence

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, Find, Old

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

Work, Age, Learning

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
Clint Eastwood

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

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

Work, Learning, Children

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Great, Real, Everything

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, Die

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard

Time, Through, Concepts

Childhood is a short season.
Helen Hayes

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong

Problem, Obesity, Stem

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

Book, Days, Perhaps

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Age, Human

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy

Snow, Reach, Provokes

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

Mind, Since, Full

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard

Become, Older, Carry

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

Life, Happy, Happen

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
Richard Dawkins

Christmas, Father, Everything

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

Tell, Secrets, Explain

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

Sadness, Healing, Child

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Alone, Happy, Creativity

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch

Men, Lives, Days

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Mean, Since

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

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