childhood Quotes

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough... ...

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of... ...

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they... ...

"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

"That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups."