Childhood Significance Quotes

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

Is there anything more important than a child?

What use does a newborn infant have?

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They're a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them.

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.

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

A child is the very sign and sacrament of personal freedom. He is a fresh will added to the wills of the world; he is something that his parents have freely chosen to produce ... he is their own creative contribution to creation.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.