Childhood quotations
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay99◆ Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
- Alfred Hitchcock99◆ In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
- N.K. Jemisin99◆ 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.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald99◆ Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
- Dave Pelzer99◆ ...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
- Ransom Riggs99◆ Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
- Scott Dikkers99◆ I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.
- P.G. Wodehouse99◆ and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
- Ruskin Bond99◆ I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed adolescent, the childish adult, but that they are in me to be drawn on; to forget is a form of suicide... Far too many people misunderstand what *putting away childish things* means, and think that forgetting what it is like to think and feel and touch and smell and taste and see and hear like a three-year-old or a thirteen-year-old or a twenty-three-year-old means being grownup. When I'm with these people I, like the kids, feel that if this is what it means to be a grown-up, then I don't ever want to be one. Instead of which, if I can retain a child's awareness and joy, and *be* fifty-one, then I will really learn what it means to be grownup.
- Madeleine L'Engle99◆ Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.
- Tom Stoppard99◆ I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
- Sherman Alexie99◆ 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.
- Marcel Proust99◆ As child we always want to grow, but as we grow up we understand that broken toys & lost pencil much better than lost friends & broken heart ....
- 99◆ Now-a-days 12 year olds have a Blackberry, an iPad, a laptop, & a Facebook profile. When I was 12, I felt Cool with my New Gel Pen.
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