Childhood Quote by Catherine Stonehouse

“Childhood is both a chronological stage and a mental construct, an existential fact and a locus of desire, a mythological country continuously mapped by…

— Elizabeth Goodenough

“Childhood feels so permanent,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served…

— Stephen Gallup

“what use is a childhood?”

— Donald Revell

“Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the…

— Gaston Bachelard

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

— Tanya R. Liverman

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“the forgotten back-and-forth of early life becomes who we are.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh…

— Eugene Ionesco