Joys Of Childhood Quotes:

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

- Ellen Glasgow

source: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

topic: Giving, Childhood, Joy, Joys Of Childhood, Childhood Memories

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

- Graham Greene

source: The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Spiritual, Joys Of Childhood, Kid At Heart

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong, Joys Of Childhood, Inspirational Father

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

- Russell Baker

topic: Children, Reality, People, Joys Of Childhood

Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

- Eliphas Levi

topic: Flower, Simple, Maturity, Joys Of Childhood, Simple Joys

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Daughter, Dirty, Heart, Joys Of Childhood, Economic Value

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.

- George Eliot

topic: Mother, Morning, Memories, Joys Of Childhood, Apricots

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

- Joyce Maynard

source: "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

topic: Years, Childhood, Joy, Joys Of Childhood