Childhood Quotes - Page 15

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.