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Childhood Quotes by Alison Gopnik
- One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
- Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children…
- Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the…
- Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it -…
- From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to…
More Childhood Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. — Lance Armstrong
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft
- Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Genius is childhood recalled at will. — Charles Baudelaire
- What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
- I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to… — Chester Bennington