Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy.

I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing.

As kids, we played on the streets without shoes, and the game didn't stop for oncoming traffic.

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

A child should be a child for as long as possible.

I used to stick my head out the window when I was a kid and sing at the top of my lungs and think no one could hear me.

I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.