Quotes on Childhood

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Author: Diane Ackerman

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

Author: Kate Adie

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Author: Brian Aldiss

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Author: Henri Amiel

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Author: Cleveland Amory

I didn't have a happy childhood.

Author: Giorgio Armani

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Author: Beryl Bainbridge

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Author: Alison Bechdel

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Author: John Betjeman

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Author: Louise Bogan

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Author: James Breasted

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Author: Berke Breathed

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

My childhood was appalling.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Author: Marcel Carne

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Author: Shaun Cassidy

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Author: Michael Chabon

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Author: Kurt Cobain

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Author: Sidonie Colette

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Author: Bill Cosby

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Author: Rebecca Davis

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Author: Charles Dickens

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

Author: Carol Duffy

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

Author: Patty Duke

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Author: Eleanor Farjeon

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

Author: Maureen Forrester

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Author: Herbert Gold

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Author: William Golding

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

Author: Lee Grant

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Author: Graham Greene

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Author: Peter Handke

Childhood is a short season.

Author: Helen Hayes

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

Author: Ken Hill

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

Author: Paris Hilton

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Author: Alan Hovhaness

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Author: Harriet Jacobs

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Author: Anna Jameson

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

Author: Peter Jurasik

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Author: Thomas Keller

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Author: DeForest Kelley

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

Author: Marguerite Kelly

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Author: Tracy Kidder

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Author: Anselm Kiefer

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Author: Charles Lamb

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

Author: Jude Law

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Author: David Leavitt

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Author: Robert Lifton

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Author: Maya Lin

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Author: David McCallum

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

Author: Darius Milhaud

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Author: Edna Millay

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Author: Alice Miller

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

Author: Shannon Miller

I didn't have a childhood.

Author: Pat Morita

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Author: Max Muller

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Author: Kary Mullis

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Author: Hector Munro

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Author: Larry Niven

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Author: Simon Pegg

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

Author: Daniel Pinkwater

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Author: Eleanor Porter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Author: Dennis Potter

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Author: Dennis Potter

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Author: Dennis Potter

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Author: Marcel Proust

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.

Author: Manuel Puig

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.

Author: Henry Reed

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Author: Rob Reiner

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Author: Tommy Rettig

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Author: Samuel Richardson

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Author: Dennis Rodman

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Author: Jean Rousseau

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

Author: Alfred Schnittke

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

Author: Barbet Schroeder

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Author: Al Sharpton

I look back to a happy childhood.

Author: Catherine Spence

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

Author: Saul Steinberg

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Author: Tom Stoppard

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

Author: William Sumner

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Author: Uma Thurman

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Author: Georg Trakl

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Author: Lisa Whelchel

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Author: Thornton Wilder

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

Author: Tina Yothers

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.

Author: Mary Poppins

Sweatpants are to adulting what glitter is to children - a necessity

Author: Mindy Kaling

Life's a journey; don’t forget to adjust your map when the child in you insists on detours!

Author: Maya Angelou