Childhood Quotes · Page 60

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis

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

— Jenna McCarthy

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow…

— Anna Quindlen

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

— Colin MacInnes

I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and…

— Mike Flanagan

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

— W. P. Kinsella

“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.”

— Don DeLillo

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is…

— John Marsden

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and…

— Penelope Lively

After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the…

— Steve Backshall

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes…

— Junot Diaz

My little sisters password for the Disney website is 'MickeyMinnieGoofyPluto' I asked her why...she said 'They told me to use 4 characters.'

— Anonymous

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I…

— Woody Allen

Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life…

— Buck Brannaman

“To feel the tender skin of sensitive child-fingers thicken; to feel the sex organs develop and call loudly to the flesh; to…

— Sylvia Plath

“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov…

— Leo Tolstoy

I thought back to a childhood memory: the first dead body I'd ever seen was the body of an immigrant washed up…

— Kareem Mortimer

“My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easier. No one was…

— Sara Bareilles

There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the…

— Ingmar Bergman

“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but…

— Gene Wolfe

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a…

— Kola Boof

My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a…

— Mariah Carey

“some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.”

— Kirsty Logan

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

— Anthony Yarde

I wish I could go back in time and live my childhood all over again.. life back then was just perfect and…

— Haroun Chebbi

“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”

— Carrie Ryan

Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

— Tammy Duckworth

Life was a lot easier when the only thing I had to take care of was a Tamagotchi.

— Anonymous

I agree I was rash and got totally out of hand when I was a teenager, but I took hold of my…

— Bobby Deol

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

— Travis Barker

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

— K. Arsenault Rivera

“My whole life, you have made decisions for me." "Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.”

— Sarah MacLean

“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”

— Evelyn Waugh

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

— Rachel Dolezal

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

— Agatha Christie

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

— George Saunders