Children Quote by Opal Whiteley

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

As my kids are growing up, I continue to write songs for them.

— Eddie Rabbitt

“children who are blessed with happy childhoods almost never grow up to become famous writers.”

— Joan Schenkar

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Satisfaction"…

— Alice Hoffman

“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so…

— Bette Greene

“Growing up ruins everything”

— Betty Smith

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward,…

— Anonymous

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

— Gregory Porter

“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn,…

— Michael J. Collins