C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
Source: Emile
“Childhood is the sleep of reason.
[Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]”
“Childhood is the small town everyone came from.”
“Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.”
“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.”
“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
Source: We Shadows
“Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going without hope.”
“Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.”
“Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.”
“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”
Source: Green Mars
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”
“Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.”
“Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.”
“Childhood lasts all through life.”
“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”
“Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.”
Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.”
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
“Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags”
Source: This Is What Happy Looks Like
“Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.”
“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.”
“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.”
“Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.”
“Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.”
“Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth
“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.”
“Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.”
“Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.”
“Childhood reading is so important.”
“childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you’re Black”
Source: Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement
“Childhood romances always seem so real, so enduring, when we are separated from the object of our affection. But usually, when we return, we find that our dreams and memories quiet surpassed reality. -Lady Anne, Whitney's aunt”
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”
Source: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
“Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.”
Source: The Stories of David Leavitt
“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.”
“Childhood trauma can range from having faces extreme violence and neglect to having confronted feelings of not belonging, being unwanted, or being chronically misunderstood. You may have grown up in an environment where your curiosity and enthusiasm were constantly devalued. Perhaps you were brought up in a family where your parents had unresolved traumas of their own, which impaired their ability to attend to your emotional needs. Or, you may have faced vicious sexual or physical attacks. In all such situations, you learn to compensate by developing defenses around your most vulnerabe parts.”
Source: The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole
“Childhood trauma could be very detrimental to anyone, but remember God let it happen to you so you can protect and spread awareness to generation after generation.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 3
“Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.”
“Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.”
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.”
“Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”
Source: The Spectacular Now
“Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.”
“Childhood was not a big seller in the ancient world, where fate and pedigree were the formative influences.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”
Source: Black Dreams
“Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.”
“Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
Source: Consequences
“Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'”