Abiding Quote by John Dewey

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

— Dennis Potter

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the…

— Jonathan Kozol

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

— Samuel Johnson

We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has…

— Kate Miller

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge…

— Anonymous

Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness,…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go…

— Alan K. Simpson

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence…

— Heather O'Neill

I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the…

— Rockwell Kent

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

— Nicole Krauss

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of…

— Ambrose Bierce