Learn Through Quotations

“The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.”

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“Childhood is a short season.”

“The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.”

“Like star dust glistening on fairies'wings Little girls dreams are of magical things.”

“Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings.”

“Childhood is short, maturity is forever.”

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

“Children have more need of models than of critics.”

“Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.”

“Childhood is not a stage of life but an opportunity for growth.”

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.”

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”

“Inside every hardened criminal beats the heart of a ten-year-old boy.”

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”

“The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.”

“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud,Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”

“You can go through life and make new friends every year -- every month practically -- but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”

“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”