Childhood Quotes

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.

Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she som...

Play is the highest form of research.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of...

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He g...

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...

This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time th...

Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the no...

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

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...