Quotes about Childhood
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
- Eugene Peterson
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.
- Gloria Steinem
As a kid, I would never have imagined I would live in England for four years. I am very happy and contented that my daughter is growing up in a country as developed as this one.
- Carlos Tevez
Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.
- Beth Hoffman
if you can't have a say in your child's life during her preschool years, how can you expect to influence her to make wise choices when she's a teenager?
- Beverly Lewis
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.
- Beth Moore
I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.
- Cody Fern
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
- Anais Nin
Just as a happy child cannot mis-hug, the sincere heart cannot mis-pray.
- Max Lucado
What child, whilst summer is happening, bothers to think that summer will end? What child when snow is on the ground stops to remember that not long ago the ground was snowless?
- Max Lucado