Quotes
Quotes about Childhood
'T is the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A stranger yet to pain!
I feel the gales that from ye blow
A momentary bliss bestow.
I have had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I 've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But 't was the first to fade away.
I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well
And love me, it was sure to die.
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.
I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,--
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
'T was ever thus from childhood's hour!
My fondest hopes would not decay:
I never loved a tree or flower
Which was the first to fade away.
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,--
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
Thy pardon, Father, I beseech,
In this my prayer if I offend;
One something sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journey's end.
My wife, our little boy Aignan,
Have travelled even to Narbonne;
My grandchild has seen Perpignan;
And I--have not seen Carcassonne.
The final road is back to the unformed mentality of childhood. Faith and loyalty and duty. Faith cannot move forward to new loyalties and duties
Wisdom sends us back to our childhood.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
The old are in a second childhood.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
Let a man turn to his own childhoodâno furtherâif he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
