Top Childhood Quotes

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were t...

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away...

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.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'Rose chuckled.But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead of by example. It seems to me that if a child's hero is their mother or father -- or eve...

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

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...

It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting tech...

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

Childhood is a short season.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundles...

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.