When you’re a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they’re not as bad as your parents.

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her...

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That ‘Builds Character.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and...

I have heard it said that a happy childhood is a curse, because what follows can never measure up. All I can say is, those people must want too much; they can’t accept that life...

He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and wonder what effect it would have on him, because, with Edgar,...

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I’ve found that their childhood...

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in...

Do you remember the books from our childhood? Those were you could decide yourself what the character should do next?I always loved those books, getting to decide what will happen, being responsible for it.But did...

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother’s womb!

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and...

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one’s childhood when one has truly left it.

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She...

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don’t know how precious it is until it’s worn out and gone away.

Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day. She joins you in the little summerhouse. Entirely of logs. Both larch and...

I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corner, and if I had been certain that no one would ever find...

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made...

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same...

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I’ve ever found is the Children’s section of a library.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the...

Člověk se přirozeně nemůže od dětství osvobodit, aniž by se jím podrobně nezabýval, jak již dlouho víme z Freudových výzkumů. Čistě intelektuálním věděním přitom nelze ničeho dosáhnout. Účinné je pouze rozpomenutí se, které je zároveň...

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Childhood is the most valuable thing that’s taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used...

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet into the world, girls who kept themselves apart from the world without really...

A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel...

A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers.One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the...

Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the...

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from...

During childhood, it’s about trying to help develop who your kid’s going to be. During adolescence, it’s about responding to who your kid wants to be.

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by...

Anger is the immune system of the soul.