Childhood is perhaps the most beautiful period of one’s life. During childhood, everything appears to be warm and glowing. Everything seems to be a wonderful medley of laughter and frolic during this wonderful phase. The joys of childhood can never be substituted for anything else. Contesting the trials and tribulations of adult life leaves one with a nostalgic yearning for this lovely phase. If you are looking to relive the best days of your life, then these famous babyhood quotations and sayings given below will take you back in time when life was innocent, free and full of gaiety.
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Childhood Quotes
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
 Marion C. Garretty |
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While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt |
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What is a home without children? Quiet.
Henny Youngman |
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead |
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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin |
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz |
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A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
Robert Brault |
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Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.
Pam Brown |
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
Bette Davis |
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner |
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
Frederick Buechner |
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My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left.
Ginger Rogers |
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Dame Agatha Christie |
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In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood |
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I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres |
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything.
Maria Montessori |
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All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum |
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I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
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We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
John Denver |
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
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Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
David Copperfield |
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion |
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Arthur Rimbaud |
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson |
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
R. D. Laing |
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I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
Britney Spears |
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All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce |
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These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.
Charles Manson |
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
David Beckham |
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire |
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Whitney Houston |
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No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep |
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There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
John Irving |
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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.
Lester Bangs |
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
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If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
John Gardner |
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
J. Lubbock |
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Garth Brooks |
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley |
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne |
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
Jackson Browne |
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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
James C. Dobson |
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James C. Dobson |
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But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
James Dean |
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When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.
P. J. Harvey |
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.
Charlie Brown |
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
Faith Hill |
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams |
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Lydia M. Child |
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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Jean Piaget |
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean Piaget |
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".
Harmon Killebrew |
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There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
Harrison Ford |
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence |
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers |
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates |
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Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates |
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It's been a long time since I've enjoyed watching a high school football game like this.
Bill Murray |
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The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper |
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
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Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
Mike Love |
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I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
Tom Cruise |
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My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Mike Myers |
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