Childhood Quote by Douglas William Jerrold

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

— Lyman Abbott

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy…

— Jean Cocteau

Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even;…

— Henry James Sr

“Preface: "It was a bright, sunny normal day…but it wasn’t. The enemy lurked unseen, the ravenous beast it was, undetected and slowly moving forward.…

— M.K. McDaniel

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt,…

— Charles Dickens

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

— William Wordsworth

“If you wish to know the state of a people, turn to its youth: here, nothing is disfigured yet, they express themselves in ways…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again,…

— Charlotte Mason

The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound,…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

— Peter Shaffer

Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now…

— Ellen Key

“His work is as it were, a sacred object and the true fruit of his life, and his aim in storing it away for…

— Arthur Schopenhaur