Childhood Quotes

• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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

  Jerry Smith

  Beautiful, Seasons, Childhood Memories

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• 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

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Recovery, Entrepreneur, Genius

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• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  "The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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• In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Children, Giving, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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

  Samuel Smiles

  Children, Mirrors, Firsts

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.34

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Earth, Nostalgia

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

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• Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

  Louis de Bernieres

  Insanity, Expected, Knows

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.74, Vintage

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• For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

  Lois Wyse

  Dream, Mean, Matter

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• 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 Fitzgerald

  Time, Growth, Easier

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Children, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Tenniel (1998). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Children, Men, Fatherhood

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• Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cute, Family, Girl

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Noses

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• Childhood lasts all through life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Lasts

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  E. B. White

  People, Tolerance, Mind

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