Quotes about childhood80 famous phrases, beautiful sayings from great Russian writers

Being a child is the greatest pleasure, beautiful phrases and quotes about childhood with meaning speak of this. Statements about childhood found their place among the great Russian philosophers, these writers gave people their quotes, sayings, aphorisms, theses, short proverbs with a meaning about childhood and about children. We wish your child a happy childhood.

Miracles happen only in childhood. (Vladislav Grzhegorchik).
Childhood is the light at the beginning of the tunnel. (Dmitry Pashkov).
Fruits taste best to us when they are running out; children are most beautiful when childhood ends. (Seneca).
Childhood is the happiest years of life, but not for children. (Michael Moorcock).
Childhood: a wonderful time in life, when all you need to do to lose weight is to take a bath. (Richard Zera).
There is no sweeter music than the angelic voices of the children, if you don’t especially listen to the words they pronounce. (Logan Piersall Smith).
Children have neither past nor future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present. (Jean Labruyere).
Babies are innocent in their bodily weakness, and not in their liking. (St. Augustine).
Children are impudent, fastidious, quick-tempered, envious, curious, self-serving, lazy, frivolous, cowardly, intemperate, deceitful and secretive; they easily burst into laughter or tears, over trifles indulge in immoderate joy or bitter sorrow, can not stand the pain and love to inflict it - they are already people. (Jean Labruyere).
No wonder people are so terrible if they have to start life as children. (Kingsley Amis).
The boy shouts: “It is impossible! Two for one! ”He doesn’t know that this will only be so. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna).
When I was a girl, I had only two girlfriends, and even then imaginary. And they played only with each other. (Rita Rudner).
Adult fun is called a deed, in children they are also a deed. (St. Augustine).
My mother, thirty years old, served what was left of dinner on the table. No one has ever seen dinner itself. (Calvin Trillin).
Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist, leaving childhood. (Pablo Picasso).
Children's lies and the sincerity of adults are two shortcomings that are not forgiven. (Zdislav Kalendkevich).
As a child, he suffered a concussion and since then believed everything that is written in the Sunday newspapers. (George Aide).
Who needs it - a baby whose mouth speaks truth? (Leonid Leonidov).
Children are angels whose wings are shortened as their arms and legs grow. (Author unknown).
Children are our comfort in old age, and help us achieve it faster. (Lionel Kaufman).
Children are good or bad, but grandchildren are always amazing. (Ludwik Hirschfeld).
Late children are early orphans. (Benjamin Franklin).
Love is the last and most severe childhood illness. (Author unknown).
A difficult childhood never ends. (Jerzy Urban).
Childhood is freedom from age. (Arkady Davidovich).
Childhood is a promise that never comes true. (Ken Hill).
In the theater of life, the only true spectators are children. (Vladislav Gzheshchik).
The events of childhood do not pass, but are repeated, like the seasons. (Elinor Farjon).
If in your childhood you did not have a bicycle, and now you have a BMW-745, then all the same in your childhood you did not have a bicycle. (Unknown author).
When you finally return to your old house, it turns out that you were not looking for your old house, but your childhood.(Sam Ewing).
First, we part with childhood, and then with youth. (Seneca Lucius Anney (Younger)).
Childhood should be given the greatest respect. (Juvenal Decimus Junius).
It is better to cry in childhood than in old age. (Unknown author).
Human customs and laws are such that if at the beginning of growth, in childhood, in the prime of youth, when the mind and reason are very receptive and not overloaded, when talent and abilities are in prime - if at that time a person does not comprehend anything in science, then will not comprehend and subsequently over a long life. (As-Samarkandi).
It is only in man that it is firmly and reliably absorbed into his nature in the first period of his life. (Jan Amos Comenius).
Let childhood mature in childhood. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But this is not so. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and rarely can have a real friend, or even less - freedom. (Immanuel Kant).
In the very early childhood, heroic feelings should already be laid down, tuning the soul to the exploits of love and nobility. And does history present few examples of heroes? (Nikolai Vasilievich Shelgunov).
Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the whole future moral person. (Nikolai Vasilievich Shelgunov).
The song that the mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person throughout his life, to the grave. (Henry Ward Beecher).
Respect ... a clean, clear, immaculate holy childhood! (Janusz Korczak).
Years of childhood are first of all the education of the heart. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).
Many troubles are rooted precisely in the fact that people from childhood are not taught to manage their desires, they are not taught to relate to concepts correctly, necessary, impossible. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).
By impoverishing the world of childhood, we make it difficult for a child to enter society, into the collective. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).
Over the years, emptiness and disappointment are formed among those young people whose childhood and adolescence were thoughtless satisfaction of their needs. (Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky).
In children's fantasies, there are almost always situations in which a child dominates someone. (Alfred Adler).
Childhood is a time of many questions, opportunities and consequences. (Alfred Adler).
Poor childhood is being sacrificed to adulthood. (Wilhelm Dilthey).
Conscious childhood is glory, not shame. (Georges Bataille).
Snow, in other words - childhood, in other words - happiness. (Emil Michel Choran).
Only a small part of people is able to maintain their childhood perception of the world. (Eric Byrne).
Childhood - when everything is amazing and nothing is surprising. (A. Rivarol).
Childhood is a condition that you cannot return to, but you can fall into. (Author unknown).
Childhood is a butterfly that is eager to burn its white wings in the flame of youth. (A. Bertrand).
Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their lives. But this is not so. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and rarely can have a real friend, or even less - freedom. (I. Kant).
Nothing becomes so alien to man as the world of his childhood, left by him forever. (Per Lagerquist, "Sibyl").
- He says that in childhood, his mother hurt him, and since then gives him a little vodka. (Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, The Examiner).
Where does childhood go
Which cities?
And where can we find a remedy
To get there again? ("Fantasies of Vesnukhin").
The biggest loss for a person is an unhappy childhood. (Daniil Granin, “Man is not from here”).
As a child, I was like a ship without an anchor, carried off somewhere by a storm into the darkness. Constantly looking for a quiet haven, and instead, rushing over and over again to meet new surprises. (Alfred van Vogt).
The hardships suffered in childhood leave a deep and indelible mark and will never be replaced. (Romain Gary, “The Promise at Dawn”).
What childhood is strong in an adult! (Romain Gary, “The Promise at Dawn”).
I remember that when I was a child - somewhere between six and seven - it always seemed to me that wherever I went, the film crew accompanied me everywhere. Invisible, of course. (Ben Kingsley).
He did not have childhood in childhood, did not have what we used to usually understand and call childhood. Therefore, in his youth, he did not have youth. He did not have a childhood, we say, and therefore never subsequently had maturity. (Vsevolod Krestovsky, Petersburg Slums).
From seven to eleven years is a big piece of life, full of dullness and oblivion. At this age, we gradually lose the gift of communicating with animals, and the birds stop sitting on our windowsills to chat. Gradually, our eyes get used to what they see, and begin to protect us from a miracle. (Leonard Cohen)
It’s sad if you spent your childhood without really seeing it. (Jodie Foster).
In childhood, everything seems eternal, unforgettable, childhood fills the whole world with itself, and then it suddenly ends, and you throw the earth on your father’s coffin and in horror understand that there is nothing eternal. (Jonathan Tropper, “Live Yourself Next”).
The effect of early learning is similar to stone engraving. (Hassan al-Basri).
We can read books only in childhood and early adolescence. For an adult, reading is leisure or work. (Lydia Ginsburg).
In the world, few things are more important than becoming part of the childhood of your children. What is the point of climbing the steps of success if you missed the first steps in the life of your own children? (Robin Sharma, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari").
Childhood wants to play forever
Youth wants to love forever
Maturity wants to work forever,
Old age wants to start all over again forever. (Silvanus of Athos).
The feeling of loneliness experienced in childhood and not finding a way out leads to isolation of a person from himself. (Alice Miller).
The knowledge and values gained in childhood are more important than the education received at college and university. (Abdul Kalam).
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. (Wayne Dyer).
The longer a person keeps his childhood in himself, the longer the gift given to him by nature is preserved. (Alice Freindlich).
Poor childhood is sacrificed to mature years. (Wilhelm Dilthey).
It seems to me that everyone, no matter how much trouble he will have in adulthood, should have a happy childhood that can be remembered. (Gene Webster, Long-Legged Uncle.)
Each, probably, keeps in memory some event that has become a symbol of the early years of life. (Yukio Mishima, “Confession of the Mask”).
You forever possess only what you had in childhood. (Tonino Guerra).
Early tears harden. (Sigmund Graff).

The above theses about childhood, sayings and quotes about childhood in prose make it clear not only to parents, but also to other people that the child is the kindest creature that needs to be protected. By reading this article, you will understand what your child is missing and what needs to be changed. Childhood quotes are a way to improve young parents.