A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood. — Martin Compston Copy Share Image
My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
“Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It's that simple. This suggests that it isn't love that is so important… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A few minutes after they left, Harold bought the blanket from his bed, surrounded himself with his stuffed-toy animals, and built a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world. — John Rocha Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
