Quotes on “childhood”

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.