Childhood Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Brian W. Aldiss
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G. K. Chesterton
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
George Eliot
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
Malcolm de Chazal
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Anonymous
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
Martin Luther
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillo
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
Herbert Gold
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.”
Dr. Rollo May
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.
Dorothy Parke
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
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains…
Diane Ackerman
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 Calla
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
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres
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
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
John Berger quotes
Please submit only relevant quotes