Childhood Quotes

Childhood Quotes - Messages About Childhood

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

--Frank McCourt

The moment the little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

--Eric Berne

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

--Cesar Beccaria

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

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

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

-- Tom Robbins

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

-- Tom Robbins

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

-- Sigmund Freud

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

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

--Benjamin Franklin

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

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 Parker

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

--Richard Zera

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice--that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."

--Sydney J. Harris

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

--John Milton

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

Childhood is a short season.

--Helen Hayes

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

-- Igor Stravinsky

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

-- Ned Rorem

I hope these quotes about childhood helped give you perspective on your own personal development.. ~Adam

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