Our Childhood Quotes
70 quotes by 61 authors
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a…
— John le Carre
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Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining…
— Judith Viorst
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Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one by one. It…
— Henry Edward Manning
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up…
— Vincent Canby
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In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
— Robert Breault
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me…
— Natasha Richardson
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art,…
— Michael Morpurgo
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We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.
— Harville Hendrix
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We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
— Frank Herbert
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Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately…
— Doug Henning
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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days…
— Marcel Proust
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The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can…
— Alice Miller
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I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or…
— Kathryn Tucker Windham
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think,…
— Rita Dove
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
— James Hillman
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When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence…
— Harry Hay
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food…
— Homaro Cantu
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Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the…
— Harville Hendrix
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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Who Wrote These Our Childhood Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 70 Our Childhood Quotes, led by these top contributors: