Childhood Quotes - page 2

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . . (George Eliot)
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. View quote
Vangelis
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. View quote
Karel Čapek
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. View quote
Frank McCourt
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. View quote
John le Carré
Childhood is a short season. View quote
Helen Hayes
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... View quote
Beatrix Potter
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. View quote
P. L. Travers
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them. (Michael Chabon)
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. View quote
Bill Watterson
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. View quote
Agatha Christie
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. View quote
Robertson Davies
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. View quote
Francis Quarles
Life is the childhood of our immortality. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! View quote
Max Müller
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
On his childhood One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard. (Mike Tyson)
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. View quote
J. D. Salinger
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. View quote
John Betjeman
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. View quote
Manuel Puig
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. View quote
Martha Beck