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**** QUOTES ON CHILDHOOD ****


~ It is never too late to have a happy childhood! - Tom Robbins


~ There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou


~ You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain


~ Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll


~ Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. - Katherine Anne Porter


~ There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. - Deepak Chopra


~ When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. - Sam Ewing


~ The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. - Ellen Glasgow



~ A grownup is a child with layers on. - Woody Harrelson


~ In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. - Friedrich Nietzsche


~ The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. - Mencius [Book IV]


~ So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. - Gaston Bachelard


~ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso




***** QUOTES ABOUT ADULTHOOD *****


~ Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. - Chanakya (Indian Politician)



~ When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability; to be alive is to be vulnerable. - Madeleine L'Engle



~ To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. - Lorna Luft



~ There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - Dr. Who




***** PARENTHOOD QUOTES *****



~ The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. - Rajneesh



~ Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. - Dave Barry


~ You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around, and why his parents will always wave back. - William D. Tammeus



~ Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone


~ It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. - Phyllis Diller



~ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. - Josh Billings


~ Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Rev. Jesse Jackson


~ It's not only children who grow; parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard



~ Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum


~ When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck



~ If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis


~ Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman


~ The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse


~ What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. - P.D. James


~ I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models. It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control. - Charles Barkley