Childhood Quotes

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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them.  When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope?  We have two options, medically and emotionally:  give up, or fight like hell. 
Lance Armstrong

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Isaac Asimov

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Genius is childhood recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art, rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck

My kids refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced on TV.
Erma Bombeck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, 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.
Rachel Carson

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter, Jr.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When well we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals

A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.
Willa Cather

To see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Stephen Chbosky

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodar Dostoyevsky

I do not teach children. I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Wayne Dyer

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Every child is born a genius.
Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hubert

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Renfield Jamison

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched out human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
Robert F. Kennedy

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Michael Levine

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.
Hugh Mackay

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
Rollo May

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
Mencius

Can you imagine experiencing the world as a great sandbox given for us to play in like we did as children? As we play, we can also open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self-exploration as we let go of old out-dated beliefs about ourselves.
Judith-Annette Milburn

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison

It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world’s children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.
Greg Mortenson

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Lane Olinghouse

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
Pablo Picasso

Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to discover the natural bent.
Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
Paula Poundstone

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them as you think you should and half the amount of money.
Esther Selsdon

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss

Simply having children does not make mothers.
John A. Shedd

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
Gail Sheehy

Research shows that 90%t of 5 year olds are creative, but only 2% of adults are.
Lee Silber

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibilities, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me …Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I have found the best way to give advice to children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Alice Walker

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.
Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Forest E. Witcraft

Children spell love... T-I-M-E.
Anthony P. Witham

If children with terminal cancer can find love, joy, beauty and peace in their day – and they do – why don’t we?
Dan Zadra

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