Childhood Quotes

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop" "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood " "There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there" "The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness." "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "How is it possible not to feel his inner beauty, so akin to the spiritual beauty which the child reveals? The child’s power is our power." "Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you" "I really do hope that there are other women coming up who think they had a pretty good childhood." "Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child - What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end." "The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents – because they have a tame child-creature in their house" "The world isn't fair. That's why I invented Calvinball" "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." "A child educated only at school is an uneducated child" "In every Infant’s cry of fear" "A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play" "Children don’t get traumatized because they get hurt; children get traumatized because they’re alone with the hurt" "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve." "Art is childhood and no longer sleeps delighted by sun" "Men are what their mothers made them"