Childhood Quotes

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood,
and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them.
I realized that it was necessary,
once in the course of my life,
to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.