Childhood Quotes

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea...

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-...

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form th...

They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better th...

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skel...

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be ...

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think oth...

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fo...

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-y...

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their child...

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the min...

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the...

You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always...

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on a...

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o...

My school-days! The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from ch...

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I beli...

My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their exis...

The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of t...

I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of a...

My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mothe...

Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jump...

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imag...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too...

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling in...

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water--it has a memory of what it onc...

This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incide...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes w...

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that...

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the ...

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents ...

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless...

But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards s...

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had becom...

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back o...

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched ...

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

THE LILIESThis morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reel...

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surpr...

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend th...

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away...

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds...

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. ...

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always ...

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one chil...

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing ...

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interes...

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toe...

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once you...

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that be...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. Th...

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you...

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing a...

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is...

Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, t...

The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in th...

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer. I lay in...

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh...

... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent wha...

I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm ...

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that i...

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourse...

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the ear...

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got w...

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, ...

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organiza...

Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the b...