Quotes about Childhood

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. His

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money—a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's

But all those who were there, if they had lived past childhood, had twice in this world, first and last, been as helpless as a little child.

There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.