'Childhood' Quotes

Childhood is a precious and formative time in our lives, and ‘Childhood Quotes’ capture the essence of this period in just a few words. These quotes have the power to transport us back to our carefree days and remind us of the innocence, wonder, and joy of being a child. They also serve as a reminder to cherish and protect the childhood of future generations. From famous figures like Maya Angelou and Dr. Seuss to everyday parents and teachers, ‘Childhood Quotes’ have influenced and inspired individuals and society to value and nurture the young minds of the world. They continue to hold a special place in our hearts and serve as a source of motivation and reflection.Read Less

277 Distinctive 'Childhood' Quotations and Sayings

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jenna McCarthy, Childhood, Divorce, 0

- Jenna McCarthy

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jennifer Aniston, Childhood, Laughter, 0

- Jennifer Aniston

Actress

· USA

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Makepeace Thackeray, Childhood, Children, 0

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Author

· India

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Matthews, Childhood, Children, 0

- William Matthews

Poet

· USA

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Mountford, Age, Believe, Childhood, 0

- William Mountford

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, Frank Herbert, Childhood, Teacher, Teaching, 0

- Frank Herbert

Author

· USA

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Gabriela Mistral, Childhood, Flower, Hands, 0

- Gabriela Mistral

Poet

· Chile

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Gabrielle Bernstein, Childhood, Resentment, 0

- Gabrielle Bernstein

Motivational speaker

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mary Oliver, Childhood, Resilience, Survival, 0

- Mary Oliver

Poet

· USA

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mary Pipher, Childhood, 0

- Mary Pipher

Psychologist

Childhood

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mary Ruefle, Childhood, Hate, Love, 0

- Mary Ruefle

Poet

· USA

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mary Wortley Montagu, Age, Childhood, Pleasure, 0

- Mary Wortley Montagu

Writer

· England

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Childhood, Joy, Listening, 0

- Mason Cooley

Professor

· USA

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Matthieu Ricard, Childhood, Lama, 0

- Matthieu Ricard

Buddhist monk and author

· France

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life’s concern. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Maurice Sendak, Childhood, Children, 0

- Maurice Sendak

Illustrator

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Maurice Sendak, Brother, Childhood, 0

- Maurice Sendak

Illustrator

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Maurice Sendak, Childhood, Tricky, 0

- Maurice Sendak

Illustrator

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Max Muller, Childhood, Fatherhood, Secret, 0

- Max Muller

Philologist

· Germany

It’s only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Maya Lin, Artist, Childhood, Fatherhood, 0

- Maya Lin

Artist and architect

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michael Dibdin, Childhood, 0

- Michael Dibdin

Author

· England

Childhood

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michael Jackson, Childhood, Judge Me, Judging, 0

- Michael Jackson

Singer

· USA

It’s been my fate to compensate for the childhood I’ve never known. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Michael Jackson, Childhood, Family, Fate, 0

- Michael Jackson

Singer

· USA

It’s natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lev Grossman, Assuming, Childhood, Children, 0

- Lev Grossman

Author

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lindsey Vonn, Childhood, Important, Sports, 0

- Lindsey Vonn

Professional skier

· USA

There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lisa Whelchel, Childhood, Friendship, 0

- Lisa Whelchel

Actress

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louise Bogan, Childhood, Children, Hell, 0

- Louise Bogan

Poet

· USA

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Louise Hay, Childhood, Empowered, Letting go, 0

- Louise Hay

Author

· USA

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lydia M. Child, Birthday, Childhood, Love, 0

- Lydia M. Child

Author

· USA

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lynn Grabhorn, Believe, Childhood, Events, 0

- Lynn Grabhorn

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Georg Trakl, Childhood, Water, 0

- Georg Trakl

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Childhood, Children, Earth, 0

- George Eliot

Author

· England

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Eliot, Childhood, Memories, Sorrow, 0

- George Eliot

Author

· England

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024, Kinky Friedman, Childhood, Preparation, Worst, 0

- Kinky Friedman

Musician and author

· USA

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Faulkner, Childhood, 0

- William Faulkner

Writer

· USA

Childhood

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William Gaddis, Bliss, Childhood, 0

- William Gaddis

Novelist

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Homer, Ancestry, Childhood, Son, 0

- Homer

Poet

· Greece

I remain very much connected to my childhood… I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Hugh Hefner, Childhood, connected, Sophisticated, 0

- Hugh Hefner

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, J. G. Holland, Childhood, Purpose, 0

- J. G. Holland

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, H. P. Lovecraft, Childhood, Memories, Sad, 0

- H. P. Lovecraft

Writer

· USA

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Harold Ramis, Childhood, determined, Handle, 0

- Harold Ramis

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Childhood, 0

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

Childhood

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Harville Hendrix, Childhood, Finishing, Relationships, 0

- Harville Hendrix

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Henri Frederic Amiel, Blessed, Childhood, Children, 0

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Childhood, Feet, Rivers, 0

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet

· USA

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Childhood, Color, 0

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet

· USA

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Herbert Gold, Childhood, Children, Hurt, 0

- Herbert Gold

… what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Sand, Childhood, Triumph, 0

- George Sand

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Childhood, 0

- George Saunders

Childhood

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Will, Business, Childhood, Fatherhood, 0

- George Will

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Gertrude Atherton, Childhood, Grief, 0

- Gertrude Atherton

'Childhood' Quotes

277 Distinctive 'Childhood' Quotations and Sayings

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

If there’s a way to serve America, I’d always consider it.

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

But married once, a man is stak’d or pown’d, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both. Explain

Many a man’s tongue shakes out his master’s undoing.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

But God is never cruel.

'Childhood' Quotes

277 Distinctive 'Childhood' Quotations and Sayings

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