Radio Maximum has collected a selection of apt quotes and sayings about childhood. Read and reminisce about this time!
children’s quotes
“Children should live in a world of beauty, play, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, creativity.”
(Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky)
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“It seems to me that one of the greatest fortunes in a person’s life is a happy childhood.” (Agatha Christie)
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“There is no hymn on earth more solemn than the babble of children’s lips.”
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“It’s sad if you spent your childhood without ever seeing it.” (Jodie Foster)
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“A parent who tries to change his child without starting with himself is not only wasting his time, but is taking a very cruel risk.” (Vladimir Levy)
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“The child gives birth to the parents.” (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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“If only parents could imagine how annoying they are to their children!”(George Bernard Shaw)
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“If you don’t know what your children are like, look at their friends.” (Xunzi)
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“Nature wants children to be children before they become adults. Let childhood mature in children.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
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“Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.” (O. Wilde)
“Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist when you get out of childhood.” (Pablo Picasso)
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“Every child is to some extent a genius and every genius to some extent a child.” (Schopenhauer)
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“It requires more shrewd thinking, more profound wisdom, to educate a child than it does to govern a state.” (William Ellery Channing)
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“This world will be judged by children.” (Georges Bernanosa)
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“Childhood is that great season of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future of a moral man.” (Nikolai Shelgunov)
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“Children must not know how dear they are to those who bring them up.” (Robert Walzer)
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“A child is born with the need to be loved, and in that sense all of life remains a child.” (Frank Clark)
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“Our life is divided into two parts: when we are little and want to grow up, and when we are already grown up and want to return to childhood”
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“As a child you dream of growing up soon, and later you wish you could be a child again.” (Lauren Oliver)
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“Childhood is when you’re crazy happy because the bubble touched the ground and didn’t burst.”