Childhood Quotes

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

A child has a deep longing to discover that the World is based on Truth. Respect that longing. In our attempt to help children grow into Inspired Adults, we wish them to carry the Youthfulness of their Souls, and the Wonders of Childhood into their old age.

В каждом из нас есть сосуд любви, если он не заполнится в детстве, то всю жизнь будешь мучиться от жажды и неутоления. И не спастись, не уберечься. В ее сосуде было только на донышке... Бабушкино...

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.

The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.

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