Childhood Quotes

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

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would rela...

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobiles...

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glo...

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned kn...

No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from...

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...

. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...

Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to th...

Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thou...

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been...

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the speci...

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, firs...

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees ...

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were n...

O enchanted land of my childhood, a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness....

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wan...

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereo...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. T...

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervi...

That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to s...

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So...

Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insi...

Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childho...

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc...

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

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting ca...

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