Top Childhood Quotes

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Childhood Definition

(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

(n.) Children, taken collectively.

(n.) The commencement; the first period.

O enchanted land of my childhood, a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness. New Jersey, in case you didn't know it, has got beaches. And they're not all crawling with roid-rag...

The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'Lettie th...

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no TV t...

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I...

All my childhood dreams have come true.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a grea...

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when...

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.