Quotes about Childhood

Sorrow makes us all children again.

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.

The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. Be famous then by wisdom; as thy empire must extend, so let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Somewhere deep within the tormented man there is a tormented child who feels doomed to torment others!

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

The goodness of the mother is written on the gaiety of the child.