Childhood Quotes

• I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Childhood

• When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • Joy
  • Frozen

• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Why

• I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Eyes
  • Fall
  • Eye

• Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Childhood
  • Astonishing

• Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Men
  • Country
  • Children

• It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Wish
  • Moments
  • Forever

• Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Trying
  • Childhood
  • Overcoming

• An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Future
  • Observation
  • Suspicion

• There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

  

  Margo Lanagan
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day's work and always brings a smile to your face.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Memories
  • Smile
  • Face

• We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Life
  • Personalities
  • Russians

• I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Picture
  • Childhood

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

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Funny

• Childhood lasts all through life.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Childhood

• Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Remember
  • Hand
  • Imagination

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • Childhood

• All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

  

  Carl Hart
  • Great
  • Children
  • Mom

• Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Amazing

• People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Children
  • Rain
  • Snow

• I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Childhood
  • Brother

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