Childhood Quote by Joel T. McGrath

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Julie Anne Long

“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a…

— Anonymous

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.”

— Frank Herbert

“i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy.”

— Joseph Heller

“There was a time in my life when I believed I could have a place in the world, that I deserved bigger things than…

— Sarah Schmidt

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I…

— Shauna Singh Baldwin

“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of…

— Dean Koontz

“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the…

— Joan Walton Collaso