Quotes about Childhood

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.

This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

We tell children about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy for reasons we think emotionally sound, but then disabuse them of these myths before they've grown. Why retract? Because their well-being as adults depends on them knowing the world as it really is. We worry, and for good reason, about adults who still believe in Santa Claus.

If you can see your mother as a fragile five-year-old girl, then you can forgive her very easily with compassion. The five-year-old girl who was your mother is always alive in her and in you.