Childhood Quotes - Page 14

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.