Childhood Growth Quotes

Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Let's welcome the children into the world.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I was a really big kid.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I don't have children, but when I meet my friends' kids at six months old, and then I don't see them again for another six months, the changes are drastic. But if you've seen them every day, the changes are less shocking.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.