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.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

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.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Childhood is messy and beautiful.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

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.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'