Childhood Quote by Katja Millay

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani

“I’d already been an orphan, a wife, and a mother. Now I was a widow. I was only three months past my sixteenth birthday.…

— Donna Mabry

“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except…

— Gerry Boyle

“Children were the only immortality mortals got—and even then, two generations later, three at the most, no one knew you in person anymore.”

— J.R. Ward

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

“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

“There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The only promise of childhood is that it will end.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be?”

— Monique Martin

“Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising…

— Fannie Flagg

“Childhood is short and maturity is forever.”

— Calvin

“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.”

— Dave Franklin