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Childhood Quotes & Sayings

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Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die. — Michael Wincott

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way. — C.J. Sansom

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong. — Travis Barker

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert

I gave up my childhood for a career. — Brenda Lee

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. — George Carlin

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art. — Steve Mann

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind. — Paul Gauguin

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it. — Emma Donoghue

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve. — William Rounseville Alger

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. — James Nesbitt

A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.
If only I could remember ... — Lynda Fisher

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful. — Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it — Jeremy Griffith

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood. — Martin Compston

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. — Dorothy Nolte

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child. — Jacqueline Carey

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator. — Drew Barrymore

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb! — Munia Khan

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. — Peter Steinhart

A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn. — Yasunari Kawabata

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom. — Dan Groat

If you answered, 'Spin the Bottle,' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. — Dave Barry

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti — Shavasti

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ... — Agatha Christie

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! — Tess Gerritsen

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. — James Hillman

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. — Penn Badgley

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima

During her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying. — Laura Esquivel

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

Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over — Kristi Pelton

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood. — Florence Fabricant

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. — William Gaddis

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth. — David Sobel

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try. — Renata Bowers

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me. — Patrick Modiano

Childhood is a branch of cartography. — Michael Chabon

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything. — Rebecca Coleman

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy. — George Michael

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. — Rebecca McNutt

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. — Darren Hardy

Play is the work of childhood. — Jean Piaget

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. — T.H. White

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. — Eugene Ionesco

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. — Mariska Hargitay

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood — Richard Paul Evans

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. — Gary Shteyngart

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. — Giacomo Leopardi

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. — Simon Hoggart

I didn't really get a normal childhood. — Evan Rachel Wood

She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit. — Dana Marie Bell

Sisters share the scent and smells ... the feel of a common childhood. — Pam Brown

There is a place in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. — Elizabeth Lawrence

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ... — Asa Don Brown

The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence. — Sebastian Barry

I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her. — Michelle Zink

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. — Rob Reiner

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur. — Bernard Arnault

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. — Bruce Robinson

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. — Pat Conroy

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers. — Chris Galford

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories. — Thomas Keller

Mom, how come you never go outside?"
"I told you, I'm a vampire. — Alison Bechdel

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages. — Kailash Satyarthi

Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend. — Fennel Hudson

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas. — Kato Lomb

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. — Dave Matthes

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. — Ethel Waters

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. — Robert Bly

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience. — DaShanne Stokes

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. — Dave Foley

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience. — Kristin Kreuk

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. — Paige Toon

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. — Roald Dahl

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid. — Jim Morris

Life is the childhood of our immortality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy. — Richard Blackaby

Childhood is a slum and they love it. — Helen Dunmore

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. — Audrey Tautou

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. — Rick Bayan

I'll be your friend until you find a better one. — Carla H. Krueger

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. — Isabel Allende

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying. — Delia Sherman

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. — Gary Numan

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all. — Rodney Dangerfield

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! — Rodney Dangerfield

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. — George Eliot

Was it magic? Of course it was. — Brian Jacques