Childhood Quotes

In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of...

I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it ...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he ne...

And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you...

If somewhere deep within me arises some essenceof having been a child, one I never experienced,perha...

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells...

Art is childhood.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think...

Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see tha...

What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not...

Oh hours of childhood,when behind each shape more than the past appearedand what streamed out before...

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that wer...

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

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things l...

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that i...

The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland...

Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue)...

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

A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do i...

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I ...

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the abse...

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In ev...

To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,And you may chance to he...

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne...

I only wanted to tell you that this was the wonderful time for you. Don’t let any of it go by withou...

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always ...

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unf...

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he ...

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in ...

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forw...

Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Clo...

Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view.

My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easie...

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism o...

Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was t...

I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believe...

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible h...

It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippe...

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to gr...

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exha...

Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high I...

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is repla...

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision ...

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and t...

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier t...

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of...

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was ni...

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again...

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singe...

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also lo...

I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn'...

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a...

Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their childr...

As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic what...

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...

If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two,...

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of wri...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the n...

They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She...

Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if s...

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a...

From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experi...

Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As ...

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.

As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along b...

While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flower...

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

Up there in the sky.Don’t you see him?No, not the moon.The Man in the Moon.He wasn’t always a man.No...

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief t...

The child is father of the man.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on t...

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a w...

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny thing...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through li...

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.