Best 2381 quotes in «childhood quotes» category

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

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

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

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

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.