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title: "36 Childhood Like Quotes by 33 authors"
description: "Browse 36 Childhood Like quotes by 33 authors. Discover the best Childhood Like sayings and thoughts."
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> [He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-gold/he-carried-his-childhood-like-a-hurt-warm-bird-held-to-his-middle/)

[Herbert Gold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-gold/)

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> [From my childhood, I am like this. I never go parties and attend functions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahesh-babu/from-my-childhood-i-am-like-this-i-never-go-parties-and-attend/)

[Mahesh Babu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahesh-babu/)

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> [The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-eastwood/the-innocence-of-childhood-is-like-the-innocence-of-a-lot-of-animals/)

[Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-eastwood/)

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> [Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-smiles/childhood-is-like-a-mirror-which-reflects-in-after-life-the-images/)

[Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-smiles/)

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> [Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zara-larsson/sweden-will-always-be-my-home-since-my-childhood-there-was-like-a/)

[Zara Larsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zara-larsson/)

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> [Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/childhood-who-like-an-april-morn-appears-sunshine-and-rain-hopes/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

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> [my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tove-ditlevsen/my-poems-covered-the-bare-places-in-my-childhood-like-the-fine-new/)

[Tove Ditlevsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tove-ditlevsen/)

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> [I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriela-mistral/i-have-all-that-i-lost-and-i-go-carrying-my-childhood-like-a-favorite/)

[Gabriela Mistral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriela-mistral/)

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> [I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-curry/i-think-about-the-milestones-from-my-childhood-and-what-it-will-be/)

[Stephen Curry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-curry/)

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> [Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-dempsey/kids-take-you-outside-your-comfort-level-because-you-ask-yourself-how/)

[Patrick Dempsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-dempsey/)

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> [I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-redford/i-don-t-know-what-your-childhood-was-like-but-we-didn-t-have-much/)

[Robert Redford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-redford/)

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> [I am the kind of guy who you'll always see smiling. My childhood was like this. I had a lot of fun.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred/i-am-the-kind-of-guy-who-you-ll-always-see-smiling-my-childhood-was/)

[Fred](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred/)

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> [The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carson-mccullers/the-memories-of-childhood-have-a-strange-shuttling-quality-and-areas/)

[Carson McCullers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carson-mccullers/)

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> [I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suhasini-maniratnam/i-have-been-hooked-to-cinema-since-childhood-i-am-like-a-typical/)

[Suhasini Maniratnam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suhasini-maniratnam/)

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> [“Memories of our childhood are like images painted on a wet canvas, they merge until they lose all shape, often remaing only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-mynott/memories-of-our-childhood-are-like-images-painted-on-a-wet-canvas/)

[Brian Mynott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-mynott/)

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> [A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/astrid-lindgren/a-childhood-without-books-that-would-be-no-childhood-that-would-be/)

[Astrid Lindgren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/astrid-lindgren/)

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> [If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-really-want-to-hear-about-it-the-first-thing-you-ll-probably/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-michener/i-think-the-bottom-line-is-that-if-you-get-through-a-childhood-like/)

[James A. Michener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-michener/)

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> [Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-smiles/childhood-is-like-a-mirror-which-reflects-in-afterlife-the-images/)

[Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-smiles/)

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> [I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-kinney/i-can-t-divorce-myself-from-my-childhood-i-try-to-write-as-much/)

[Jeff Kinney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-kinney/)

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> [“Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-docx/childhood-it-was-like-trying-to-chart-an-entire-continent-by-the/)

[Edward Docx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-docx/)

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> [“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlette-mikulka/how-we-perceive-feel-about-and-respond-to-people-and-situations-is/)

[Charlette Mikulka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlette-mikulka/)

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> [Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-hall/steven-spielberg-was-a-huge-part-of-my-childhood-like-everyone-s-i/)

[Rebecca Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-hall/)

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> [My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mindy-kaling/my-whole-childhood-was-like-work-hard-be-quiet-respect-elderly-people/)

[Mindy Kaling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mindy-kaling/)

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> [We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vinoba-bhave/we-cannot-even-recollect-the-actions-of-our-infancy-our-childhood-is/)

[Vinoba Bhave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vinoba-bhave/)

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> [It's the prettiest place on the planet. My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-behrendt/it-s-the-prettiest-place-on-the-planet-my-childhood-was-like-a-dream/)

[Greg Behrendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-behrendt/)

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> [Childhood is like being drunk; everyone remembers what you did, except you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/childhood-is-like-being-drunk-everyone-remembers-what-you-did-except/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-wisdom/i-like-consistency-if-you-ve-had-a-childhood-like-mine-you-want-some/)

[Norman Wisdom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-wisdom/)

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> [I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-salzberg/i-had-a-very-turbulent-and-painful-childhood-like-many-people-i-left/)

[Sharon Salzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-salzberg/)

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> [Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosamond-lehmann/looking-back-into-childhood-is-like-looking-into-a-semi-transparent/)

[Rosamond Lehmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosamond-lehmann/)

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> [“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-rose-maccoll/i-was-so-young-i-tell-myself-now-i-was-twenty-one-only-recently/)

[Mary-Rose MacColl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-rose-maccoll/)

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> [“And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-keyes/and-other-times-there-would-be-tenderness-and-holding-close-liek-a/)

[Daniel Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-keyes/)

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> [“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sonya-chung/childhood-is-like-that-so-full-of-treasures-i-ve-tried-to-bring-as/)

[Sonya Chung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sonya-chung/)

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> [McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-benioff/mccullers-is-one-of-those-rare-writers-who-remembers-what-childhood/)

[David Benioff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-benioff/)

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> [It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sadio-mane/it-was-a-normal-childhood-like-the-childhoods-of-all-children-my-age/)

[Sadio Mane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sadio-mane/)

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> [“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-people-discard-their-childhood-like-an-old-hat-they-forget-about/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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