Childhood Quotes

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Eleanor Farjeon

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.

Dorothy Law Nolte

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Robert Browning

What's done to children they will do to society.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Goethe

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavier

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.

Carl Jung

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

John Holt

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Mary Lamb

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.

Chinese Proverb

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Igor Stravinsky

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Benjamin Franklin

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

Goethe

What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Bible

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Bible

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Do ye hear the children weeping O my brothers?

When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.

Anonymous

A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Children should be seen and not heard.

English Proverb

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

English Proverb

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Benjamin Franklin

There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.

Bible

A wise son maketh a glad father.

Bible

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

Homer

Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they are not.

Matthew

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

Old Nursery Rhyme

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Bible

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

Samuel Woodworth

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

John Hay

They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot

David Foster Wallace

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which they were a part. And so on, until it all dissolved into the larger thing: my mother's house becoming every other house as I once had seen it, sitting atop the southern end of a broad river valley, close enough to the the mountains that every few years a scared black bear would wander down into the remaining forest, and close enough to the ocean that those early English settlers took it as the farthest point they'd go upstream, the geology of the place preventing them from having any choice other than the one wherein they said, "We are lost; therefore we will call this home." And close enough that as a child I had been teased by older kids who said if I only tried hard enough I would smell salt water, and I, believing, stood among the light poles and the gulls in the parking lots of A&Ps and cried when I knew that it was true despite the fact that they had meant to lie, as children sometimes do.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

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