Childhood Quote by Maurice Sendak

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

— Maurice Sendak

“I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly…

— Melina Marchetta

“I just became exposed to the world, like the blinders had been removed. In typical good-kid fashion, I never really experienced the "bad" things…

— Connor Franta

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

— Monique Martin

“Live your life remembering good experiences, the bad ones were just lessons”

— Michello Borgo

“This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Bill Watterson

“when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?”

— Donna Leon

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory. They're easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or…

— Elizabeth Norris

“Memories can be tricky, especially those from childhood.”

— Karen Dionne