#childhood

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

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

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

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#both #challenge #childhood #describing #happens

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#childhood #corpses #dies

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. ↗

— Eleanor Porter

#childhood #got #me #personal #pollyanna

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

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. ↗

— Patti Smith

#books #childhood #i #interested #interior

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#childhood #coming-of-age #age