Childhood Quote by Martha Cooley

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

— Bill Watterson

“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?”

— Salman Rushdie

“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.”

— Frank Warren

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“As I get older I'm starting to sense that being a grown-up isn't nearly as much fun as children want to believe.”

— Wendy Mass

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“We were stuck between the blissful ignorance of childhood and the cold, hard truth of adulthood. The”

— Carina Adams

“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

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

“Not being in the present moment is so adultish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana