7. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” –
Patrick Rothfuss
8. “Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.” –
C.S. Lewis
9. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” –
Chili Davis Childhood quotes
10. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” –
E.E. Cummings
11. “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” –
Nelson Mandela
12. “Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.” –
Unknown
13. “Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” –
Maria Montessori14. “Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.” –
Oliver Wendell Holmes
15. “Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.” –
Carolyn Haywood
16. “Children are magic because they look for it.” –
Christopher Moore Childhood quotes
17. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” –
John F. Kennedy
18. “Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.” –
Wendy Dale
19. “Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck
20. “The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
21. “One of the great lessons I remember my dad constantly emphasising in our family while I was growing up was ‘Use your R&I.’That is, use your resourcefulness and initiative. He taught us we were not victims of the circumstances of us, but masters of our own destiny.” –
22. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” –Angela Schwindt
23. “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” – Prince William
24. “Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.” – Chris Hemsworth
25. “Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.” – Diana, Princess of Wales
26. “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.” – Richard L. Evans
27. “When I was growing up, I remember my mother saying, “Your friends are like elevators; they will bring you up or down – the choice is yours.” – David DeNotaris
28. “Cleaning the house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.” – Phyllis Diller
29. “Adults are just outdated children.” – Dr. Seuss Childhood quotes
30. “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Steightiff
32. “Never have more children than you have car windows.” –
33. “One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.” – Jane Goodall
34. “Grown-ups understand nothing by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
35. “If your child has not hated you, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
36. “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
37. “I have found the best way to give advice to is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – Harry S. Truman
38. “You are the bows from which they sent your children as living arrows forth.” – Kahlil Gibran
39. “Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” – Anne Frank
40. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein
41. “They must teach children how to think, not what to think.” –
42. “Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” –Anne Frank
43. “Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” –
44. “They must teach children how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
45. “We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.” – Harry Edwards
46. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them . If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein Childhood quotes
44. “Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.” –
45. “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. DuBois
46. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
47. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.: – Frederick Douglas
48. “Children need models rather than critics.” –
49. “To every child—I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.” – Malala Yousafzai
50. “A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.” –
51. Being an adult sucks most of the time. It just freaking hurts. It just is not what I expected.
52. Children look at everything and see the magic, feel it and breathe it while I cannot do so.
53. How will you measure how great your childhood is? By how much fun you truly had.
54. I miss being a child and there are a lot of times that I wished I can go back to then.
55. Will you turn back time and let me live my childhood once more? I was happier back then.
56. It is quite nice to be a child again, to be foolish, to live life the way you want to. It was okay.
57. Childhood is practically the most beautiful part of a person’s life, the most innocent, too.
58. What is childhood but a promise that has never been kept, all but broken pieces of the heart?
59. It was back when I was still a child that I felt what my calling was, but as I grew up, it faded.
60. I have always thought that things would be better once I grew up, but it certainly never did.
61. One day, when you feel like being a child again, remember to be kind, remember to be you.
62. There would always be one moment when you want to be a child, even if you cannot.
63. For so long, I have believed that I had it all, only to find out it was all but a dream in time.
64. Time is playful. It speeds up when you want it to slow down. I wish I can go back to that time.
65. There are childhood memories that you just want to keep going back to, no matter how old.
66. Childhood is the foundation to whom you will become in the future. Treasure just that thing.
67. If you have a happy childhood, chances are that you will be happy when you grow up, okay?
68. There would always be that moment in your childhood that defines who you soon become.
69. You have opened so many doors in your childhood and soon enough, it will define who you are.
70. When you go back to your hometown, what you miss is not the town itself but your childhood.
Growing up is something that happens to all of us, just at different times. Some of us had great childhoods and were taught the things we needed to know to be successful as adults.
Others didn’t have the same great start and may have struggled with family relationships that impacted how they moved into the future.
What’s your biggest takeaway from these childhood quotes and sayings? Do you have any other favorite quotes to add? Let us know in the comment section below.
CSN Team.