Childhood Quote by Ann Patchett

“I wish with all my heart that every child could be so imbued with a sense of the adventure of life that each change,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no…

— Tania Aebi

“I think of how emotions seem so magnified when you're a child. Joy is more all-encompassing, disappointments more crushing, hope more palpable.”

— Emily Giffin

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

— Robin Oliveira

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.”

— Dave Franklin

“Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we…

— KoKo Nervelli

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

— Tanya R. Liverman

“Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they…

— Bryce Courtenay