Top Childhood Quotes

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

Childhood Definition

(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

(n.) Children, taken collectively.

(n.) The commencement; the first period.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself..........

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

We can't leave the past in the past because, the past is who we are. It's like saying I wish I could forget English. So, there is no leaving the past in the past. It doesn't mean the past has to defin...

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

Play with your dolls for not more than half an hour, no more than fifteen minutes, no more than a second, a millisecond. If you learned math as fast as you ran outside to play, then you might be a gen...

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just...

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a ca...

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You though...