Children Quote by Charlette Mikulka

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic…

— Karl Rahner

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

— Chris Hemsworth

“Children were quick to grasp the subtleties of emotions around them, to see through evasions and quickly identify prevarication.”

— Charles Todd

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his…

— Jean Piaget

“Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups,…

— Adrienne Rich

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Siri Hustvedt

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your…

— Joe Frank

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for…

— Herman Melville

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…

— Alison Gopnik

“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and forms the…

— Diana Gabaldon