“A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.” ChildhoodWorstPreparationHappy Childhood Author:Kinky Friedman
“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.” ShouldChildrenGrowthResponsibilityChildhoodDevelopmentPeriodsAdultsProgramPreparationPocketsExpansionEmergenciesAdaptationPrivate Life Author:Grace Abbott
“Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.” HumansPlayChildhoodExpressionIndividualityPreparationInteraction Author:Frank Gehry
“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.” ArtistChildhoodIndividualityPreparation Author:Frank Gehry
“(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.” ActionCertainChildhoodHabitSpeechConstantMoodUnhappyObservationPreparationTemperSuspicionReservesFavourMy FutureAttendanceDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies BetweenUnhappy Childhood Author:Rudyard Kipling
“Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.” YearsSaidAgeJesusChristRecordsChildhoodJesus ChristArguingPreparationTemplesPriestsGapsTwelveEighteen Author:Rajneesh
“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.” HumansHappinessPoorChildhoodContactPreparationHappy Childhood Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette