Childhood Quote by John Darnielle

I think we felt like we'd done so much as young kids that we didn't know how to top ourselves. We were like, 'Is…

— AJ Michalka

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

— Benjamin Franklin

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

— Hugh Hefner

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

— Margaret Atwood

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

— Jon Heder

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

— George Berkeley

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot…

— Pete Docter

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism and our…

— Erica Jong

“There are social struggles, and the agonies and embarrassments of puberty...and the weight of the world that falls upon each of us in varying…

— Claire Messud

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

— Lynn Grabhorn

We all should be taking a good, long, hard look at ourselves and figuring out what we are and how we got the way…

— Brendan Hunt