Childhood Quotes

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Maria Montessori

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder

I look back to a happy childhood.

Catherine Helen Spence

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Andy Goldsworthy

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

John Boyne

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.Since we're together we might as well say:Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?Won't you please,Won't you please?Please won't you be my neighbor?

Fred Rogers

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended.

Olaf Stapledon

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Avis Lang (2012-02-20). Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Kindle Locations 1880-1882). Norton. Kindle Edition.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Aliki

My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.

Kristina McMorris

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

Misty Copeland

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? ? That's because they know an important truth - Life was meant to be lived. ? Puddles were meant to be experienced.

Richelle E. Goodrich

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Michael Ende

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway...let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

C. JoyBell C.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Christopher Earle

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips.

Gary Shteyngart

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Harper Lee

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Simon Van Booy