Childhood Quotes

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

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

We carry our childhood with us.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

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

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

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

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

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

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

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

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.