Childhood Quotes - Page 21

• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fighting, Thinking, Parent

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.

  Lauren Mackler

  Self, Not Good Enough, Doubt

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• When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

  Ann Hood

  Children, Years, Historical

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• By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Growing Up, Kids, Trying

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• My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

  Harry Leslie Smith

  Episodes, Abbey

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• As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Country, Lying

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1271, Open Road Media

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• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Age

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.

  Theophilus London

  Gaps, Brands, Iconic

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• Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Responsibility, Preparation

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Dream, Believe

  "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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• Childhood is messy and beautiful.

  Rachel Martin

  Beautiful, Messy

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• Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. 

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Passion, Grandchildren, Play

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• Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Nursery, Made, Plans

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• A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Pledge, Ripe, Manhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.

  Ronald Steel

  Moving, Space, Soul

  Ronald Steel (1980). “Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

  Edward Eggleston

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

  Marvin Minsky

  Years, Ideas, Growth

  "The Society of Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 1986.

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• In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

  George William Russell

  Hero, Sorrow, Shadow

  'Germinal' (1931)

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• If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

  Julie Klausner

  Race, Would Be, Lions

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• Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fate, Men, Power

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.392

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• Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Thinking, Essence

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.222, Three Rivers Press

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• The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Evil, Tears

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.50, University of Toronto Press

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