Childhood Quotes - Page 40

• I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Eye, Appreciate

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• An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, Passion, Demand

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.55

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• Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Mother, Children

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Opportunity, Skills

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• Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

  John Wolcot

  Age, Immortality, Said

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• . . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

  Gerda Lerner

  Self, White, Goal

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• I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

  Lee Unkrich

  Sweet, Quality, Stories

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• O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Flower, Precious Stones

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• My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

  William H. Gass

  Mother, Aunt, Feet

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• When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Sea, Rivers, Leaving

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.121

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• Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

  Cassie Ventura

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• ... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

  Catharine Beecher

  Education, Mother Daughter, Motherhood

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1843). “A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School”, p.48

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• Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Teacher, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 572), 1895.

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• It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Memories, Women

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• Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.

  Terri E Apter

  Fashion, Teacher, Maturity

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• The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Impression

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• Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Real, Self Esteem

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• We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Parent

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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Race, Use

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House

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• Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

  Roz Chast

  My Favorite

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• The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Education, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the
  passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing
  the very depths of our little souls?

  Emma Goldman

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.427, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

  Ashley Montagu

  Animal, Order, May

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• I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

  Dave Barry

  Halloween, School, White

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