Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.
–Kailash Satyarthi (b. 1954)
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
-Fred Rogers (1928 – 2003)
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
–Gaston Bachelard (1884 – 1962)
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
–Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
–Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867)
It’s only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
–Maya Lin (b. 1959)
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
-Kate DiCamillo (b. 1964)
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
–E. B. White (1899 – 1985)
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
–Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
–Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976)
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These words take me back Ben. Thank you for this 🙂
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Soni, thank you 🙂
By the way – please feel free to call me ‘David’, which is my first name. The word ‘ben’ just means ‘son of’ in Hebrew – my pen name is confusing… I know! Sorry about that.
❤
David
Thanks for letting me know David – will do
For me, the Agatha Christie quote sums it up above all others and I was charmed to have been given the gift of a happy childhood. Lovely post Ben. Ironically, I just wrote about a fond childhood memory on my blog you may enjoy entitled “Bear Mountain.”
Hi, Kathy – thanks for visiting!
Please feel free to call me ‘David’. That’s my first name.
The word ‘ben’ means ‘son of’ in Hebrew. My pen name is confusing… sorry about that!
❤
David
‘One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.’
I truly believe this.
Childhood is so precious. 🙂
🧒 Terveen 🧒
Lovely quotes and good truth. ❤
🤎 LaDonna – thank you! 🤎
-David
Great quotes, David! May we never lose track of our “inner child!” 🙂
💜 Cheryl 💜 – exactly!