Childhood Quote by Wendy Jean

“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the barbaric time…

— Ray Bradbury

“I wondered about the kids who everyone had decided were bad. The lost ones, the problems. What became of them when they were adults?…

— Avery Sawyer

“I could never have imagined this world if I hadn't spent almost eight decades walking around in it. People talk about how wonderful the…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over”

— Kristi Pelton

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“...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

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

— Monique Martin

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

— Heather O'Neill

“The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak of wronged childhoods.”

— Martin Roper

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman

“Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.”

— Criss Jami

“It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look…

— Isabel Miller