Childhood Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

  Christopher Morley

  Children, Years, Four

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  Bill Bryson

  Night, Ice Cream, Grew Up

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.115, VNR AG

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• There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fear, Educational, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

  Frances Mayes

  Order, Obstacles, Sometimes

  Frances Mayes (2014). “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir”, p.245, Broadway Books

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• That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Children, Unhappy Childhood, Decay

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• Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Destiny, Way

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Talent

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• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Life, Children, Learning

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.157, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Communication, Solitude

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• I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Friendship, Dog, Long

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• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Age

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• The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sorrow, Forget, Enchanting

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Truth, Parent, Want

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 1

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

  Woody Allen

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Remember, Poor, Educator

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