Best our-children & childhood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Believe Childhood Events Mercy Our Children

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Childhood Dangerous Our Children Your Children

Author:Mike Lookinland

“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.”

Ifs America Culture Felt Childhood Our Children Endless Your Children Complaints Wailing

Author:Edmund White

“That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.”

People Today Political Values Found Attitude Growing Childhood Normal Our Children Priorities Developing Value Of Life

Author:Tom Segev

“The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.”

Past Suffering Next Generations Childhood Our Children Refuse Acknowledge Next Generation

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.”

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.”

Want Children Childhood Danger Internet Direct Our Children Impact Corners Innocence Online Pornography

Author:David Cameron

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

Ifs Should Children Childhood Grew Genius Grew Up Intellectual Should Have Our Children Intelligence Indication Inner Child Early Childhood Kids Growing Up Children Playing Children Growing Up Early Childhood Education

Book:The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life

“We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.”

Children Stories Comedy Happened Childhood Our Children Down And Sat Poignant

Author:Howie Mandel

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.”

People Long Lasts Joy Left Behinds Morning Childhood Weapons Tools Our Children Acquire Toys Not Interested Left Behind Firearms Shooter Christmas Morning

Author:Jeff Cooper

“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”

World Humans Children Long Real Moments Born Human Beings Childhood Our Children Treated Sufficient Real World

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.”

Beautiful Childhood Garden Our Children Gardening

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.”

Writing Children Book Young Influence Childhood Adults Our Children Young Adult

Author:O.R. Melling

“You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.”

Mind Children Littles Book States Able Order Childhood Special Baby Our Children Innocence Your Children State Of Mind Toys

Author:Idina Menzel

“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.”

Ifs Firsts Children Quality Economy Childhood College Succeed Our Children University Thrive Graduates Affordable Early Childhood Colleges And Universities Early Childhood Education

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.”

Wanted Quality Childhood Doctors Our Children Our Family Doctor Who Surgeons Ailments

Author:Joseph Murray

“I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.”

Thinking Self Feelings Moving Waiting Childhood Our Children Surprise

Author:Sadie Jones

“Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?”

Fall Father Born Cutting Sky Childhood Planets Our Children Holes Feds Dolls

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.”

Country Stars Sun Forever Childhood Fields Flower Moon Our Children Insects Lanes Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Edna O'Brien

“We carry our childhood with us.”

Childhood Our Children

Author:Gary D.

“Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”

Ifs Way Important Moments Joy Practice Meditation Childhood Eating Our Children Filled Present Moment Cookies Joy And Happiness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.”

Wells Might Left Behinds Sea Childhood Rivers Our Children Leaving Fountain

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Struggle Childhood Style Identity Battle Our Children Victim Forgiving Loyalty Range Fierce Our Father Learn To Forgive Parenting Styles

Author:Augustus Napier

“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.”

Thinking Children Memories Childhood Future Our Children Raises Rose Forgotten Painful Surface Compare

Book:Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

Source: Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us

“Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.”

People Pleasure Fantasy Childhood Roots Our Children Sexuality Affected Our Thoughts

Author:Ali Sina

“The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.”

“There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.”

Way Should Trying Ideas Childhood Our Children

Author:John Darnielle

“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”

Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Feelings Care Christian Form Law Belief Taken Atheism Childhood Habit Our Children Slave Positive Atheism Paris Customs Bent False Gods

Author:Voltaire

“All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.”

Thinking Feelings Childhood Universal Our Children Deficiency

Author:Rian Johnson

“I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.”

I Can Generations One Thing Childhood Our Children My Generation

Author:Takashi Miike

“My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.”

Firsts Two Age Spiritual Young My Own Childhood College Brother Mom First Time Our Children Catholic My Mom Life Changing Exposed Young Age Two Brothers Catholic Family

Author:Matt Cullen

“Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.”

Sometimes Force Growing Up Growing Childhood Our Children Distance

Author:Sara Shandler

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.”

Thinking Needs Kind Said Two Artist Left Stuff Childhood Serious Like You Balance Healthy Husband Our Children Competition Singers Comedian My Husband Funny Stuff Healthy Competition

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Knows Different Home Sound Term Childhood Broken Our Children Broken Homes

Author:Bucky Sinister

“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Enough Social Know How Childhood Emotional Wall Drug Skills Adults Our Children Alcohol Holes Over It Ethical Feel Better Posters Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Bucky Sinister

“All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.”

People Thinking Way Different Self Remember Childhood Adults Our Children Structure Narrative Different Peoples Biographers

Author:Rachel Holmes

“The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.”

Character Stories Forget Childhood Shapes Our Children Sacred Landscape Your Children Never Forget Sacred Places

Author:John Dufresne

“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."”

Ifs Seems Energy Childhood Becoming Normal Our Children Down And Strive Inevitable Anxious Hierarchy Becoming More

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.”

People Thinking Years Wells Children Bigs Lasts Three House Left Born My Own Four Childhood Quiet Died Our Children Nostalgia Echoes Happy Family

Author:Guy Maddin

“We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods. We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.”

Trying Stories Shows Girl Language Teach Childhood Honor Tradition Our Children Primaries Our Family Portuguese Family Tradition

Author:Adriana Lima

“We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.”

Humans Human Beings United Gone Childhood Grew Grew Up Our Children Rough Times Migrate

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.”

“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.”

World Children Moving Childhood Changed Judging Drug Behavior Our Children Drinking Adulthood Grandchildren Peer Pressure Children And Grandchildren

Author:O. S. Hawkins

“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

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