C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.”
“Childhood and innocence are only synonymous to the privileged.”
Source: An Olive Grove in Ends
“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
“Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.”
Source: By Myself and Then Some
“Childhood begins to end once the child stops being happy to see its parent return home unless they have brought it something.”
“Childhood bonds aren’t about time; they’re about innocence. Keep that, and even new love can feel ancient.”
“Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.”
“Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?”
“Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.”
Source: My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann
“Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bond with another child. The bond, defying knowledge and understanding, either is there, or is not; once a bond comes into existence, no child knows how to break from it until the setting is changed.”
Source: The Book of Goose
“Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bond with another child. The bond, defying knowledge and understanding, either is there, or is not; once a bond comes into existence, no child knows how to break from it until the setting is changed.”
Source: The Book of Goose
“Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.”
“Childhood contains prophecies of what awaits us as an adult. No doubt about that. Powerful totems are bound up in trifles.”
Source: Byron and Shelley
“Childhood crawls, adulthood sprints. Life isn’t short; it’s our perception of time’s passing that makes it feel fleeting. The quality of our path trumps the miles we’re given.”
“Childhood decisions do not have to define you.”
“Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.”
“Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”
“Childhood does not last forever,' said Juniper. 'Although I believe the childish soul can endure for an eternity.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
“Childhood doesn’t exist for children; however, for adults childhood is that former country we lost one day and which we futilely seek to recover by inhabiting it with diffuse or nonexistent memories, which in general are nothing but shadows of other dreams.”
Source: La forma de las ruinas
“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
“Childhood food memories, like family jokes, are often untranslatable to outsiders.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Childhood friends are precious like pearls.”
“Childhood had flown in one fleeting moment. The days of innocence and liberty were gone forever. Life was approaching us, with all its troubles, intricacies and disillusionments. We all dreamed and hoped for a good life, with a good job and a happy ending. We would read the same comic books, go to the same movies, and at times even sleep in the same bed, so closely woven was the relationships among us. But age brings with it pride. Pride brings hatred, and together they breed snobbery and social climbing.”
Source: I, Vagabond
“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”
“Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.”
Source: Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education
“Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!”
Source: Memories
“Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.”
Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot
“Childhood has no necessary connection with age.”
“Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.”
“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence”
“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.”
“Childhood innocence was a hell of a drug.”
Source: Good Composition
“Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Childhood is a basic part of one's life. It can never be detached. Either it makes a void in or completes life.”
Source: Water A Novel by God
“Childhood is a branch of cartography.”
“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.”
“Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.”
“Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.”
“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of.”
“Childhood is a land entirely independent of everything. The only land where kings exist. (Letters on Life)”
“Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.”
Source: Sever
“Childhood is a noisy and dangerous affair.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Childhood is a race to find out who you really are, before you become the person who you are going to be. Not everybody wins.”
Source: Daisy Darker
“Childhood is a slum and they love it.”
Source: Your Blue-Eyed Boy
“Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred.”
Source: Horror Stories: A Memoir
“Childhood is a time of discovery and learning. Play is vitally important for early child development. It allows them to express their creativity and learn to interact with other children. For them it is both work and relaxation. While children love exploring and we must give them enough time to play, many infants and toddlers also find reassurance in repetitive routines, and we need to build this stability into their day.”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“Childhood is a time of openness and acceptance, of gullibility and trust, of fun and friendships. The bonds formed in the early years of life remain strong because on some level you realize that you and the other person are bundles of pure potential. You don’t know how you will turn out. What will you become? How will you see and how will you be seen by the world? Despite the unknowns, there is a nonjudgmental acceptance of each other.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.”
“Childhood is a voice that I’m unburying until my vocal
cords hurt.”
Source: Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry