Childhood Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

  Stephen Leacock

  Jail, Village, Able

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

  Merrill Markoe

  Echoes, Training, Narcissism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Reality, Might

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Laughter, Able

  Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.elle.com. August 4, 2009.

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• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Theatre, Actors

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  Robert Gober

  Thinking, Catholic, Benefits

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Children, Taken, Ideas

  "In the Now". Interview with John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

  Mary Oliver

  World, Dysfunctional Family, Salvation

  "Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver". Interview with Maria Shriver, www.oprah.com. March 09, 2011.

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• In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Order, Return, Something New

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, My Birthday, Bats

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.18, Zondervan

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• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Men, Healthy

  John Ruskin “Two paths. Lectures on art, delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870. Aratra Pentelici. Time and tide. Pre-Raphaelitism. The eagle's nest. King of the Golden River. The relation between Michael Angelo and Tintoret”

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• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Cutting, Air

  '19 December 1835'

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• A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Color, Roots

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• I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

  George F. Kennan

  Seductive, Promise, Quality

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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• I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Age

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Challenges

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