Childhood Quotes

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.

In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.

Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development.

... Angus had a "pretty normal childhood." Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood.

There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere.

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

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

Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind.

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

Children with less opportunities often become adults with more flexibility.

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

In a way I haven't quite stopped mourning the end of my childhood.

A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.

The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.

And what do I know about humans? Only this: My name is Doloria Maria de la Cruz, and I'm not just the end of childhood. I'm the end of humanity. And if you come from the skies- I'm coming for you.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

If You Want To Learn About LOVE, Happiness And Joy, Please Go To Your Childhood and Learn.

The only walk of life where you can rightfully chill and run.Celebrate childhood!! Happy Childrens Day!!

What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

The foundations of your childhood, they stay with you.

Art is childhood.

I'm not going to have a husband anyway, " said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she was just a little girl after all.

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself……….

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.