Childhood Quote by Maurice Sendak

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try…

— Spike Jonze

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

— Marianne Wiggins

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I…

— Anonymous

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year…

— Anita Pallenberg

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and…

— Devin Townsend

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the…

— Dorothy Allison

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until…

— Jimmy Barnes

I always have felt that I was six years old.

— Melanie Martinez

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

— Jerry Lewis

“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It was the…

— Margaret Atwood

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

— Sylvia Plath