All Quotes

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
‐‐ Lydia M. Child

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
‐‐ Kailash Satyarthi

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
‐‐ Bob Filner

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

Childhood reading is so important.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
‐‐ David Leavitt

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
‐‐ Anna Jameson

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.
‐‐ Roz Chast

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
‐‐ Mary Karr

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'
‐‐ Steven Wright

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
‐‐ Brennan Manning

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
‐‐ Lana Parrilla

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
‐‐ Paul Klee

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

Children always turn to the light.
‐‐ David Hare

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.
‐‐ James Gleick

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.
‐‐ Annette Curtis Klause

Children and teens take in stories to the deepest imaginable level. What we put on the page can change the people they'll become and the course of their lives.
‐‐ Cynthia Leitich Smith

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
‐‐ Delia Ephron

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

Children are all foreigners.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
‐‐ Major Owens

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
‐‐ David Dinkins

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
‐‐ George Takei

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
‐‐ Lady Bird Johnson

Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.
‐‐ Cesar Millan

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
‐‐ Meshell Ndegeocello

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.
‐‐ Denise Juneau

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
‐‐ Faith Hill

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
‐‐ Carl Jung

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
‐‐ Francois Fenelon

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.
‐‐ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
‐‐ Tim Sample

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
‐‐ Tim Wise

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
‐‐ Jane Badler

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
‐‐ John Bradshaw