Childhood Quote by Laura van den Berg

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from…

— Ben Shapiro

I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where…

— Paul Smith

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

— Marguerite Kelly

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly…

— Paul McCartney

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

— John Gardner

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a…

— Nick Clegg

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to…

— Magda Gerber

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

— Stevie Nicks

“Childhood is a time for pretending and trying on maturity to see if it fits or hangs baggy, tastes good or bitter, smells nice…

— Erma Bombeck

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young…

— Jane Wagner