There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Votes: 4
Graham GreeneI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Votes: 4
Sigmund FreudChildhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Votes: 3
Edna St. Vincent MillayFlawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character. Votes: 3
Deb CalettiChildhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonChildhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Votes: 3
Lydia M. ChildSometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. Votes: 3
Simon MawerChildhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed... Votes: 3
Eugene IonescoChildhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. Votes: 3
Anthony HorowitzChildhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.] Votes: 3
Jean-Jacques RousseauChildhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears. Votes: 3
Charles ChurchillChildhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. Votes: 3
Rachel CuskChildhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. Votes: 3
J. B. PriestleyChildhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart. Votes: 3
Marcus SamuelssonChildhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. Votes: 3
George EliotChildhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. Votes: 3
Kailash SatyarthiChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Votes: 3
Friedrich Max MüllerChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Votes: 3
Max MullerChildhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it. Votes: 3
Samuel SmilesChildhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. Votes: 3
John BetjemanChildhoodâs work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job. Votes: 3
Caroline PrattIt's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. Votes: 3
Robin QuiversChildhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. Votes: 3
Tove DitlevsenThe Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead... Votes: 3
Emily DickinsonI had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. Votes: 3
Susie BrightThere are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Votes: 3
Marcel ProustEvery single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters. Votes: 1
Kailash SatyarthiInvesting in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high. Votes: 1
Anne M. MulcahyYou know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.' Votes: 1
Michael K. WilliamsI cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection Votes: 1
Sigmund FreudIf we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. Votes: 1
Lance ArmstrongLiterature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Votes: 0
Jane YolenEvery generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood. Votes: 0
Arnold GesellThe four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. Votes: 0
Art LinkletterThose who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachVaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases. Votes: 0
Ben ShapiroI've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood. Votes: 0
Jonathan AmesThe greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present. Votes: 0
Simon Sebag-MontefioreThere are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. Votes: 0
Cleveland AmoryUp to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy. Votes: 0
Richard DollThe Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood. Votes: 0
Matthieu RicardMathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better. Votes: 0
Arnold Sommerfeld... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? Votes: 0
George SandTrue poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineReading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. Votes: 0
Neil PostmanMy childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. Votes: 0
Stephen ManganAnyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime. Votes: 0
Flannery O'ConnorI am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonMy childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums. Votes: 0
Sylvia FraserBelieving in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. Votes: 0
Adam PhillipsYou know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent. Votes: 0
Michael K. WilliamsHe carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. Votes: 0
Herbert GoldMy earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. Votes: 0
Joan RiversStorybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence. Votes: 0
Jesse WilliamsWars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisSince childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life. Votes: 0
Lindsey VonnSuccess is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebIt's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Votes: 0
Maya LinWe're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind. Votes: 0
Mariella FrostrupCandy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever. Votes: 0
Dylan LaurenAlmost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. Votes: 0
Lady Bird JohnsonSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Votes: 0
Gaston BachelardThey say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. Votes: 0
Curtis JosephI've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood. Votes: 0
Barbet SchroederThere are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. Votes: 0
Pat ConroyUnhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Votes: 0
H. P. LovecraftKids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance. Votes: 0
Kelley ArmstrongOne of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do. Votes: 0
Gretchen RubinThe rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. Votes: 0
Tom VilsackA man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die. Votes: 0
Francois MauriacI attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Votes: 0
Leverett SaltonstallThe events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. Votes: 0
Eleanor FarjeonThe last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war. Votes: 0
Beverly SillsIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. Votes: 0
Aimee MullinsThere are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels. Votes: 0
Paul Austera good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. Votes: 0
Philippa PearceGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. Votes: 0
Binyavanga WainainaThe monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous Votes: 0
John le CarreI hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. Votes: 0
Anne TylerLaws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. Votes: 0
Andre GideThe protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. Votes: 0
Mary PipherIn childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Votes: 0
SocratesI was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. Votes: 0
Charley PrideYour twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into. Votes: 0
Bill BurrLove makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowMice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayAs I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. Votes: 0
Mary Wortley MontaguThe Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood. Votes: 0
Theophilus LondonSo I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. Votes: 0
George SaundersI alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood. Votes: 0
Neal CassadyIt's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. Votes: 0
Lev GrossmanMy childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life. Votes: 0
Natalia VodianovaThe day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. Votes: 0
Patrick RothfussFrom childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeMy earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. Votes: 0
Amanda HarlechI put a positive spin on a difficult childhood in my 10 essays. Available on Amazon.com. Votes: 0
Helen LevinMy parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis-BextorMy parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. Votes: 0
Sophie Ellis BextorThere were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. Votes: 0
Edward HoaglandThe heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerI have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood. Votes: 0
Caspar WeinbergerYour responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. Votes: 0
Kathy MckeonMy dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. Votes: 0
Olivia WildeThat is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. Votes: 0
Alice HoffmanIt's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy. Votes: 0
Ezra MillerA lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood. Votes: 0
Laura SchlessingerI loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. Votes: 0
Patti SmithBefore you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours. Votes: 0
Michael JacksonI have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it. Votes: 0
Tina YothersMy grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. Votes: 0
Elena RogerIn our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. Votes: 0
Gordon KormanSometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. Votes: 0
Jimmy FallonMy childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded. Votes: 0
Ellen GilchristIf I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood â then Iâm satisfied. Votes: 0
Astrid LindgrenI do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. Votes: 0
Maurice SendakWhoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. Votes: 0
Sandra BullockMy childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen. Votes: 0
Ishmael BeahA rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyWhat a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldThe tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow. Votes: 0
Stephen LeacockI had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftIn a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. Votes: 0
Patricia MacLachlanI ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it. Votes: 0
Billy Ray ChitwoodI got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself. Votes: 0
Chin HanI had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. Votes: 0
Maeve BinchyIt's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. Votes: 0
Rick StevesThere's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'. Votes: 0
Gwyneth PaltrowA happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. Votes: 0
Mary CholmondeleyThe chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. Votes: 0
Rene DescartesOne doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. Votes: 0
John MalkovichIt is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. Votes: 0
William GaddisWell I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. Votes: 0
Gerald ScarfeI grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. Votes: 0
Berkeley BreathedIn my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Votes: 0
Philip RothI missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood. Votes: 0
Beau MirchoffI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away." Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsI have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do. Votes: 0
Dasha ZhukovaI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Votes: 0
Harriet Ann JacobsWhat a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food. Votes: 0
Rodney DangerfieldThe second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
William MountfordNo matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
Federico FelliniSo much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
Gabrielle BernsteinThe grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude AthertonWe all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
Gloria SteinemSome one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.
John WolcotWe are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.
Lynn GrabhornJohn could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
Paul McCartneyAmerica, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.
Pierce BrosnanI dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
Renzo PianoI have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.
Sonia BragaThe only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
David LynchComing from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
Estella WarrenStanding, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReligion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Richard DawkinsThe born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.
Robert M. PriceNot childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
Charles LambThe biggest thing I've heard for the last four months is, âThanks for ruining my childhood,'
Paul FeigPlaying with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
George MichaelIn childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;
Jan StrutherI was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.
Woody AllenIf the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
Candace WheelerCyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.
Emma ForrestWe never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
Frank HerbertGolf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel JohnsonEveryone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.
Tayeb SalihI think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLilloage means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
Marguerite YourcenarGrowing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.
Sara ShandlerEddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingI think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
William SadlerThe only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
Orson Scott CardWhat does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.
Deborah DavisOneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
G. Stanley HallBack to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
Jimmy BuffettAs a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
Michael GruberWhat a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
Rodney DangerfieldI would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita DiamentI have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Gabriela MistralIf the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul's Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.
Julie KlausnerI always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.
Kate ZambrenoTo trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
Robert BreaultYou bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
Anthony DoerrThe habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
AristotleI had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
Louise ErdrichEveryones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
Marilyn MonroeEducation and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
PlatoAll of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.
Rian JohnsonHow dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.
Samuel Woodworth