Childhood Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn't necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal…

— Connor Franta

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”

— Gail Godwin

“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise,…

— Sonya Chung

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you become an…

— Sergey Grechishkin

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world…

— Jean Hannah Edelstein

“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”

— Larry Smith

“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“Just like this, the kids we raised slowly start growing up and away from us. We have to gradually let go of their hands…

— Keiko Tobe