Childhood Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When I think of my youth, he went in, what we took for granted, what we assumed was for ever certain, for ever permanent.”

— William Boyd

“I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.”

— Nathan Filer

“One of the things I have come to know most surely in my work is that the belief system acquired in childhood is never…

— Kate Morton

“Belief is like that, a circle, and often I find that the seemingly simplistic explanations from childhood for the unexplainable have merit, maybe more…

— Frances A. Washburn

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it…

— Patricia Briggs

“growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore”

— Anonymous

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth…

— Heyward Ewart

“What you have always believed in is the real you.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree”

— W.S. Merwin

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“I have come to believe that every family has its defining action, its defining belief. From childhood, I understood that my parents’ was this:…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich