Childhood

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

— Childhood

My lovely living Boy,My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.

— Childhood

'Tis not a life,'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.

— Childhood

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smellsAnd sights, before the dark of reason grows.

— Childhood

Women knowAlthough such trifles.

— Childhood

[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio dæmonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.

— Childhood

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

— Childhood

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

— Childhood

A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

— Childhood

Teach your child to hold his tongue,He'll learn fast enough to speak.

— Childhood

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,The sports of children satisfy the child.

— Childhood

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.\t

— Childhood

Ay, these young things lie safe in our hearts just so long They break it, and farewell! the bird flies!

— Childhood

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

— Childhood

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.

— Childhood

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

— Childhood

I wonder–never to return to them.

— Childhood

Once positioned on their(children's) lips,come out as a melodious lisp.

— Childhood

Even If they (children) fall during their play,the ground, mostly, does not even hurt them.

— Childhood

If they (children) smash, the flower vase assumes a smilewater forgets about its own colourlessness.

— Childhood

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.

— Childhood

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

— Childhood

O lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure!

— Childhood

We have no such daughter, nor shall ever see Without our grace, our love, our benizon.

— Childhood

Fathers that wear rags Shall see their children kind.

— Childhood

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

— Childhood

Oh, 'tis a parlous boy; He's all the mother's from the top to toe.

— Childhood

Your children were vexation to your youth, But mine shall be a comfort to your age.

— Childhood

Behold, my lords, The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger.

— Childhood

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

— Childhood

From infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, so that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.

— Childhood

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

— Childhood

The booby father craves a booby son,And by heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

— Childhood

Adolescents are simply those people who haven't as yet chosen between childhood and adulthood. For as long as anyone tries to hold on to the advantages of childhood—the freedom from responsibility, principally—while seeking to lay claim to the best parts of adulthood, such as independence, he is an adolescent. [...] Eventually most people choose to be adults, or are forced into it. A very few retreat into childhood and never leave it again. A large number remain adolescents for life.

— Childhood

The children in Holland take pleasure in makingWhat the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

— Childhood

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

— Childhood

When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

— Childhood

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

— Childhood

They are idols of hearts and of households; The kingdom of God to a child.

— Childhood

When the lessons and tasks are all ended, Shedding sunshine of love on my face.

— Childhood

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

— Childhood

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Into a sea of dew.

— Childhood

Alas! regardless of their doom, Nor care beyond to-day.

— Childhood

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, Drawing the soul to its anchorage.

— Childhood

I think that saving a little child Than loafing around the throne.

— Childhood

Few sons attain the praiseOf their great sires and most their sires' disgrace.

— Childhood

Another tumble! that's his precious nose!

— Childhood

Oh, when I was a tiny boy To cast a look behind!

— Childhood

Children, ay, forsooth, They are not rare.

— Childhood

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

— Childhood

Oh, would I were a boy again, Was wept away in transient tears!

— Childhood

There was a little girl, When she was bad she was horrid.

— Childhood

Ah! what would the world be to us Worse than the dark before.

— Childhood

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

— Childhood

Who can foretell for what high cause This darling of the gods was born?

— Childhood

Each one could be a Jesus mild, As each goes out at journey's end.

— Childhood

And he who gives a child a treat Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

— Childhood

Lord, give to men who are old and rougher The young years of the little child.

— Childhood

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

— Childhood

The wildest colts make the best horses.

— Childhood

A wise son maketh a glad father.

— Childhood

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

— Childhood

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

— Childhood

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.

— Childhood

Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

— Childhood

There is nothing more to say, From the house on the hill.

— Childhood

Pointing to such, well might Cornelia say, "Suffer these little ones to come to me!"

— Childhood

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

— Childhood

It is very nice to think In every Christian kind of place.

— Childhood

In winter I get up at night I have to go to bed by day.

— Childhood

When I am grown to man's estate Not to meddle with my toys.

— Childhood

Every night my prayers I say, I get an orange after food.

— Childhood

While here at home, in shining day, Is being kissed and put to bed.

— Childhood

Children are the keys of Paradise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.

— Childhood

If there is anything that will endure Fresh from his hand, and therefore undefiled.

— Childhood

Not a child: I call myself a boy," "Not a child.

— Childhood

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

— Childhood

Birds in their little nests agree:Fall out, and chide, and fight.

— Childhood

In books, or work, or healthful play, Some good account at last.

— Childhood

Oh, for boyhood's time of June,Me, their master, waited for.

— Childhood

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

— Childhood

The child is father of the man.

— Childhood

Sweet childish days, that were as longAs twenty days are now.

— Childhood

A simple child,What should it know of death?

— Childhood