Childhood Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Download Open image “A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Happiness Happy childhood Poor Poor Preparation Preparation
By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, — Lori Gottlieb Copy Share Image
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
If Id had a happy childhood I definitely wouldnt have become the person I am - although a bad childhood isnt a recipe for… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
