Childhood Quotes

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

To maintain your honesty, one must know to keep alive the spirit of chidhood

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

There always comes the day when children swallowthe key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.

It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

This was the part of the road he knew best, the part his old blue Schwinn had known so well that at one time, the bike might have found its way back home without anyone riding it.

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

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

I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old

When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains.

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome.

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.

I was nine when I figured out it’s better to be respected than liked.

Don't you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.

Every child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun islike a yellow hole. . .

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting.

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

There is no land like the land of your childhood.

Because the golden egg gleamedin my basket once, though my childhoodbecame an immense sheet of darkening waterI was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your parents.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.

Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.

You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

For many of us, the curtain has just come down on childhood.

Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.

I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.

Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!