Childhood Quote by Hortense Calisher

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in…

— Sue Grafton

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

— Tracy Kidder

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

— Robertson Davies

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

— Agatha Christie

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

— Dorothy Richardson

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

— George Eliot

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

— David Sheff

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

— Frank McCourt

The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.

— John Burnside

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing…

— Amity Gaige

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

— William Matthews

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

— Kinky Friedman