C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Childhood is a wilderness.”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“Childhood is an exploratory period of calculated investigation. The nagging feeling that a child’s life has not really began until he or she attains adulthood makes growing up both a whimsical and fretful time. Childhood is not all merriment since a child realizes that seamless youthful days are an experiment for adulthood.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”
“Childhood is bound like the Gordian knot with my memories of the Black Sea, and I still feel its waters welling up within me today. Sometimes these waters are leaden, as grey as the military ships that sail on their curved expanses, and sometimes they are blue as pigmented cobalt. Then would come dusk, when I would sit and watch the seabirds waver to shore, flitting from open waters to the quiet empty vastlands in darkening spaces behind me, the same birds Ovid once saw during his exile, perhaps; and the same waters the Argonauts crossed searching for the fleece of renewal.
And out in the distance, invisible, the towering heights of Caucasus, where once-bright memories of the fire-thief have transmuted into something weird and many-faceted, and beyond these, pitch-black Karabakh in dolorous Armenia.”
Source: The Heretic Emperor
“Childhood is built on bad decision-making.”
Source: Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
“Childhood is but change made gay and visible.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!”
“Childhood is dark and it's always moaning like a little animal that's locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it's too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It's only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you've survived.”
Source: Childhood, Book One of the Copenhagen Trilogy
“Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.”
“Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.”
Source: The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions
“Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.”
Source: Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'
“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”
“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.”
Source: Character
“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.”
Source: Character
“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.”
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
“Childhood is messy and beautiful.”
“Childhood is never troubled with foresight.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.”
“Childhood is not a rehearsal for life; childhood is life and children are already whole people.”
Source: Hold On, But Don't Hold Still
“Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.”
Source: Theological investigations
“Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it’s frustrations and confusions, too.”
“Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?”
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content”
Source: The Silent Crisis
“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,”
Source: The Silent Crisis
“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
“Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.”
Source: The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
“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.”
“Childhood is not the happiest time of one's life, but only to a child is pure happiness possible.”
Source: It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer
“Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.”
Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus
“Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.”
“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
“Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.”
“Childhood is so uncertain, so distant. It's almost like childhood is the origin of fiction: describing any past event over and over to see how far away you are getting from reality.”
Source: Loop
“Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.”
Source: Arcadia
“Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?”
“CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY”
“Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.”
Source: Eva-Mary
“Childhood Is the Best of All the Seasons of Life, And the Longer It Lasts with Happy Memories, Stronger the Emotional Stability in Adulthood”.”
“Childhood is the best period of life...”
“Childhood is the cruelest time. A place of extremes, in which one might this day sail carefree amongst the silvery stars, only to be plunged tomorrow into the black woods of despair.”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”
“Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.”
“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”
Source: Lullabies for Little Criminals
“Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.”
Source: Innocent Blood
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
Source: The Whistling Season
“Childhood is the period when we are full of dreams. We jump, we fly and we soar. It is almost as if wings have been implanted on us and we are rocketing and gliding in the sky. Sometimes, we reach the stars, sometimes we talk to the moon and at other times we swing on the rainbow. And these dreams are unidirectional, that is, we learn only to aspire and hope; without even wondering there could be any stop to our flights of fantasy.”
Source: Lines of Fate: First Love and Other Stories
“Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.”
Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.”