Definition of Childhood

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Definition of Childhood
	Childhood The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. Children, taken collectively. The commencement; the first period. Related Definitions: Are, Being, Child, Children, Collectively, Commencement, Condition, First, From, In, Infancy, Of, Or, Period, Puberty, State, Taken, The, Time, To, Which

Childhood Quotations

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

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

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

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra

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

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

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

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

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

Childhood Translations

childhood in French is enfance
childhood in German is Kindheit
childhood in Hungarian is gyerekkor, gyermekkor
childhood in Italian is fanciullezza
childhood in Norwegian is barndom
childhood in Swedish is barndom

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