America Quote by Edmund White

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

— Maya Lin

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

— Jesse Metcalfe

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

— David Letterman

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

— Terence Crawford

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks…

— Domenico Gnoli

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

— Daniel Craig

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

— Barbara Kingsolver