Childhood Quote by John R. Commons

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

— Francis Quarles

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“One of the great differences between childhood and manhood is that we come to like our work more than our play. It becomes to…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes…

— John Dewey

There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is…

— Robert Greene

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

— Samuel Richardson

“And then, as slowly as the light fades on a calm winter evening, something went out of our relationship. I say that selfishly. Perhaps…

— Paul Torday

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority…

— Pentti Linkola

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line…

— Norman Mailer

“But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself…

— D.H. Lawrence