Childhood Quotes - Page 2

• Childhood lasts all through life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Lasts

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

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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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• I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, Father, People

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Recovery, Entrepreneur, Genius

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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 a short season.

  Helen Hayes

  Children, Seasons

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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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• Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Past, Views

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

  John Betjeman

  Children, Dark, Sight

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• I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

  Penelope Lively

  Believe, Maturity, Frozen

  Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

  Raquel Welch

  Marriage, Dream, Reality

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

  Kinky Friedman

  Preparation, Worst, Happy Childhood

  "Will Texas get Kinky?". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2005.

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

  Robertson Davies

  Belief, Spoiled, Spoiled Children

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Louise Bogan

  Children, Hell

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Parent

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

  George Will

  Business, Fatherhood, Solemn

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Memories, Forever

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• A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

  Pindar

  Fatherhood, Age, Aging

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• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Godly, Immortality

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• A babe is fed with milk and praise.

  Charles Lamb

  Milk, Praise, Babe

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.292

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• The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Foundation, Headstone

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 109-113,

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• The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

  Alison Bechdel

  Ethos, Mad, Influence

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