Childhood Quotes - Page 28

• As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

  Daniel Snyder

  Real, Problem, Obesity

  "Athletes Hit Hill For Kid Health". Politico, September 28, 2010.

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• My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

  Luca Parmitano

  Beautiful, Beach, Memories

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• I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

  Edmund Burke

  Romance, Despair, Genius

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• Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Talkies, Has Beens

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”

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• The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Adults, Way

  MARGARET MEAD (1930). “GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA”

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• Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other's chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other's children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother's voice.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Fishing, Imagination

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Waiting, Sitting

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• Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

  John Ruskin

  Truth, Pride, Age

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

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• The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

  Rebecca West

  Sacrifice, Race, Panic

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• After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Survival, Resilience, World

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• Man to the last is but a froward child;
  So eager for the future, come what may,
  And to the present so insensible.

  Samuel Rogers

  Children, Men, May

  Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.221

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• The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Children, Knows

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• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  Barbara Holland

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Single Mom

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

  Jane Wagner

  Young

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

  Lillian Hellman

  Children, Pain, Memories

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• I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stress, Resilience, Identity

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• the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Beautiful, Garden, Our Children

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Wrinkles, Age, Different

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• Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

  Joan Didion

  California, Chicago, Vermont

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.128, Zola Books

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• Childhood, who like an April morn appears,
  Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

  Charles Churchill

  Children, Rain, Sunshine

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.137

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• Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

  Katharine Anthony

  Stories, Facts, Persons

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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