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.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

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

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.

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

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

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 may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.

Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

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!