Maria Montessori Quotes

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

I will always pay respect and homage to my early years, because that's what gave me the initial push to go on and do what it is I do. That's where I learned the love and respect for music.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.