I Need A Witty Quote About childhood shaping your adulthood...?

Question

kinda like you become who you are as a child. any advice?

Answer 1

Mark Strand --1934

"Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the waters
and drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt.
Now you look down, The waters of childhood are there."

WHERE ARE THE WATERS OF CHILDHOOD? (1978)

Answer 2

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I Need A Witty Quote About childhood shaping your adulthood...?
kinda like you become who you are as a child. any advice?

Answer 3

This one is short and sweet:

"We were born being who we are. Now we only wear bigger shoes!"

OR...

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

...but this is my favorite.

"Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday school. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."

Answer 4

I'm not sure if these are what you were shooting for, but here are some of my favorites:

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

"Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. " - Katherine Anne Porter

"The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day." - John Milton

Answer 5

I have really enjoyed being 40. I would not repeat 20 to 39. There are somethings from my childhood that I loved but really I much prefer where I am right now. The things from my life the good the bad and the ugly have all had a part of who I am today. So If I had to choose I choose now.

Answer 6

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh
English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel


It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.
Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Answer 7

i can translate for you one we use in my country:
what johny will not learn, john will not know.