Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself. (Quote by - Tim Kaine)

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. (Quote by - Rosellen Brown)

We started filming a year ago. I will be back in Jamaica in the latter part of this year to shoot footage on my childhood days. (Quote by - Harry Belafonte)

Changing demographics present an economic challenge that must be met by finding the most cost-effective ways to deliver early childhood services. We must prepare our young people, regardless of socio-economic position, to be an intelligent workforce and savvy consumers. (Quote by - Brad Anderson)

I think almost all the diseases, except cancers and some birth defects, are higher among those with disadvantage. It's important that we ask why we are seeing this inequity in childhood outcomes in Australia in 2005. (Quote by - Fiona Stanley)

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. (Quote by - Bible)

Its the struggle of childhood and youth that makes woman so goal-oriented. She has to fight for everything and it is still true of majority of girls who are discriminated against their brothers. (Quote by - Smriti Irani)

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

She leaves us all a better America than the America of her childhood. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor. (Quote by - Steve Schirripa)

They've been taught since childhood to be more docile while boys tend to be more rebellious and rambunctious. We're always wanting to make people happy. (Quote by - Susan Newman)

I haven't had the rice pudding of my life today. But I guess I lost that opportunity with the end of my childhood. (Quote by - William Rice)

Childhood is a short season. (Quote by - Helen Hayes)

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly. (Quote by - Eric Wilson)

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Our review clearly showed that the prevention of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer needs to begin in childhood. Reduction in childhood sun exposure and tanning will hopefully stem the rise of skin cancer. (Quote by - Mandeep Kaur)

The people who come here leave happy. They go away with something from their childhood. Or they get an object from the rest of the world. (Quote by - Dawn Lamb)

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. (Quote by - Bible)

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. (Quote by - Edgar Winter)

The foundation is just everything. Throughout my childhood, my parents were always behind me in everything I wanted to do. Having the support behind me made me strive and keep striving and just have that no-fear attitude. .. We do everything together. (Quote by - Hannah Teter)

I was surprised that the relationship between intelligence and brain structure changed so much as a child grows up. In early childhood, the smartest children had a thinner cortex -- this is the opposite of what you'd expect. By late childhood, the pattern had changed completely. (Quote by - Philip Shaw)

Those are things that we just wouldn't experience these days. That was a time when people lost a quarter of their kids to childhood illnesses. (Quote by - Thomas Perls)