Childhood Quotes

Famous Quotes on Childhood

• "The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking." —Unattributed Author on Childhood
• "'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away." —Francis Beaumont on Childhood
• "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 on Childhood
• "In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not." —Bible on Childhood
• "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." —Bible on Childhood
• "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." —Bible on Childhood
• "Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." —Bible on Childhood
• "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." —Bible on Childhood
• "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table." —Bible on Childhood
• "Women know The way to rear up children ; They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Childhood
• "Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Childhood
• "[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings." —Robert Burton on Childhood
• "Diogenes struck the father when the son swore." —Robert Burton on Childhood
• "Besides, they always smell of bread and butter." —Lord Byron on Childhood
• "A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth." —Lord Byron on Childhood
• "The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]" —Cicero on Childhood
• "Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children." —Richard Henry Dana on Childhood
• "They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Those truants from home and from Heaven They have made me more manly and mild; And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child." —Charles M Dickinson on Childhood
• "When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little one gather around me, To bid me good-night and be kissed; On, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face." —Charles M Dickinson on Childhood
• "My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas," —Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas on Childhood
• "Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow." —George Eliot on Childhood
• "Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew." —Eugene Field on Childhood
• "Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak." —Benjamin Franklin on Childhood
• "By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child." —Oliver Goldsmith on Childhood
• "Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day." —Thomas Gray on Childhood

Wikiquote Article on Childhood

Quotes regarding Childhood, a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between Infant|infancy and adulthood.

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell.

  That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

  • Guardian by Brian Aldin, 1974

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• Childhood is a short season.
  • Helen Hayes
• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
  • John Betjeman
• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
  • Cesare Pavese
• Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
  • Richard S. Zera
• Childhood is the sleep of reason.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
  • Herbet Gold
• I was never a child. I was always a menopausal woman in a child's body.
  • Tracy Ullman
• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
  • Tom Stoppard
• It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
  • Tom Robbins
• One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
  • Cesare Pavese
• The son whines to his father, "You messed up my childhood!" And the father says, "How could I, son? I wasn't even there."
  • Anonymous
• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
  • Deepak Chopra