Quotessence
Home / Topics / Childhood Quotes

Childhood Quotes

Browse 4994 quotes about Childhood.

Related topics

ChildrenIfsPeopleThinkingWorldKnowsYearsWayParentAgeMemoriesMenKidsRememberDreamEarly ChildhoodOur ChildrenAdultsFeelsFirstsWantBookMotherShouldWritingHas BeensSchoolKindStoriesLongMadeGrowsYour ChildrenLooksMomentsPlayStillsFatherGrowing UpHappy ChildhoodTryingWantedDifferentLittlesAdulthoodHumansChildhood MemoriesFeelingsPersonsEndsMayWellsHomeRealGivingHeartYoungBelieveGrewLastsEnoughFeltLostMindNeedsWholeGrew UpTwoChildhood DreamsFatherhoodMy OwnWould BeMeanImportantYouthPastAbleFactsFantasyHouseCertainSeemsSelfBornI CanWonderAdolescenceGrowingIdeasSometimesForeverHelpingLifeOld AgeJoyBehindsFormProblemArtDifficultmore

Childhood Quotes

“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.”

MenLifeHeartChildrenFeelingsFormSpiritSocialVoiceHeardChildhoodExpressionSpringLaughterPhilosopherUpliftingAnalysisSignificanceEgotismMerry
Author:William Osler
Create image

“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”

IfsLife IsSpiritWishAcceptingTeachWonderfulChildhoodYouthReadyRegretHairGoes OnReturnLessonsSeasonsAgingAcceptedGoldenDustBrownSilverClayGarmentsSeasons Of LifeBrown HairGolden HairLife Is Wonderful
Author:Peace Pilgrim
Create image

“Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.”

ThinkingHumansKindGodSeemsSpiritUniverseWhiteChildhoodProjectsConceptsFemaleEssenceProfoundMalesCreatorDebateRidiculousBeardOmnipotentIndescribableChapelOmniscientDepictionSistine Chapel
Book:Living Faith
Create image

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

PainJoySpiritLeftSoundLosesHurtOur LivesGrowingRiskTreeCrazyChildhoodDogCryWindCallingOkayPaintCuriousClimbsBikeWipeVigorousJoy And PainHedgerows
Author:Peter Heller
Create image

“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.”

MindChildrenAgeSpiritMotherCertainEmotionEducationChildhoodPersonalityDevilSensibilityProvokingInfantDeformityMoustache
Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
Create image

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”

YearsHeartChildrenSpiritGrowsMemoriesChildhoodAnd LoveChristmasHolidayChildhood MemoriesKindredChristmas SpiritInspirational ChristmasChristmas DayMerry ChristmasChristmas HolidayChristmas TreeFunny ChristmasXmasChristmas ThoughtsBest ChristmasChristmas LoveHoliday SeasonChristmas SeasonChristmas CardChristmas MagicChristmas TimeShort ChristmasHoliday TraditionsReligious ChristmasChristmas Card GreetingsChristmas Holiday GreetingsFunny Christmas CardChristmas JoyFunny Merry ChristmasChristian ChristmasMeaning Of ChristmasChristmas SongBest HolidayChristmas GreetingsMerry Christmas CardsChristmas CheerInspirational HolidayTender HeartsChristmas PeaceGreat ChristmasMerry Christmas GreetingsWarm ChristmasHoliday CardHoliday SpiritMeaningful ChristmasPositive HolidayChristmas FriendshipReligious HolidayClassic ChristmasHoliday Greeting CardMerry Xmas FunnyChildren ChristmasGreat HolidayHoliday LoveHoliday CheerMemories And Love
Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom
Create image

“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303”

SpiritSufferingFoundCausesImaginationLossLevelsNovelChildhoodConditionsCenturyEmotionalBenefitsLowsRainConstitutionCrisisDeeperTraumaWanderAppetiteSymptomsAdequateHeroinesWearinessYour FavoriteFreezingAilmentsPolioTuberculosisFaintingLiving ConditionsEmotional Trauma
Author:Diane Setterfield
Create image

“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”

ShouldLooksJoySpiritOpportunityChildhoodDangerExerciseLaughterRespectHarmonyDeeperWitAmusementSolemnMockeryHeartless
Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
Create image

“In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.”

PeopleLoveBelieveHumansMayStatesFeelingsWisdomPoliticalSpiritSocialNaturalHuman BeingsExistenceMeditationEconomicChildhoodYogaDirectInnocentWellnessAlmightyTime PassesExistence Of God
Author:Nirmala Srivastava
Create image