“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Others on Childhood
Pablo Neruda
2 quotes“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
George R.R. Martin
2 quotes“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
Pat Conroy
2 quotes“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”
Patrick Rothfuss
2 quotes“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”
William Wordsworth
2 quotes“The child is father of the man.”
Mitch Albom
2 quotes“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a chil...”
George Eliot
1 quote“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”
Toni Morrison
1 quote“Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.”
John le Carré
1 quote“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
Bill Watterson
1 quote“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
Truman Capote
1 quote“All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.”
John Milton
1 quote“The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.”