Childhoods Quotes Page 2

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails;

more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I had a series of childhood illnesses.

.. scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous.

Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

When we are children we seldom think of the future.

This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning.

But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, .

.. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden.

It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

I see my parents as tiny children who need love.

I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year.

The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist.

I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories.

And happy memories are better than any toy.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.