Quotes about Childhood
If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
— Lady Gaga
When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.
— Acts 7:21
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— GK Chesterton
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
— Genesis 21:8
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
— Elton John
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
— St. Augustine
The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.
— Ravi Zacharias
I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
— Toni Morrison
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
— Beth Moore
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
— Martin Luther
A child's cry touches a father's heart.
— Charles Spurgeon