#childhood

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood #children #learning #often #play

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#care #childhood #dad #him #job

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#anything #childhood #desire #else #ever

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. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#becomes #both #child #childhood #learning

Childhood is the sleep of reason. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#reason #sleep

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#always #childhood #fire #flare #forgotten

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. ↗

— Travis Barker

#died #had #i #know #made