Top 1200 Early Childhood Quotes & Sayings

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready to learn. It's really not rocket science: Put kids on the right path at an early age - and keep them there.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories of my parents in my early childhood and the solid foundations of socialisation and strong values that they gave me never left me for one day.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

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.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let's not confine ourselves to primary education. Let's think of early childhood development and education as a whole.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

New York rushed to get students into early childhood programs, but the research is clear that it has to be high quality. What we are giving poor kids now in early childhood is nothing like what we are giving middle-class kids in most places.

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los Angeles.

After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

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.

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.