Childhood Quotes

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

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

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

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

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