Childhood Quotes

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Peter Medawa

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Bruce Barton

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Henri F. Amiel

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F Scott

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin McLane Spock

Common - Sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Bauldlaire

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 Aldiss

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Henry David Thoreau

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Mrs. Sigourney

Its never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecke

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Cleveland Amory

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Colette

Adulthood is the ever - Shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann von Goethe

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

Pinda

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Akhenaton

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

Graham Green

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

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

John Milton

Literature... is the rediscovery of childhood.

Georges Bataille

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

Joe Moore

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

Art Linklette

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

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory