Quotes about Childhood
A child's cry touches a father's heart.
— Charles Spurgeon
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]
— Margaret Mead
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
— Robert Brault
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
— Mark Vonnegut
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
— Martin Luther
Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.
— Max Lucado
Lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.
— Nelson Mandela
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
— Nicole Kidman
My mom dyed my hair red when I was little using vegetable dye so it wouldn't damage my hair.
— Nicole Kidman
I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.
— Nikki Giovanni
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
— Genesis 21:8
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
— Deuteronomy 21:18