Childhood Quote by Frank McCourt

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless…

— Frank McCourt

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

— Maeve Binchy

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

— Harold Budd

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

— Melissa Etheridge

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

— Gertrude Atherton

“Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.”

— Joe Queenan

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

— Kinky Friedman

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

— Joss Whedon