Quotes about Happy Childhood

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. Votes: 3

I didn't have a happy childhood. Votes: 2

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Votes: 2

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Votes: 2

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. Votes: 2

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. Votes: 2

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Votes: 2

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. Votes: 2

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. Votes: 2

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Votes: 2

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. Votes: 2

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. Votes: 2

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Votes: 2

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. Votes: 2

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. Votes: 2

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. Votes: 2

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. Votes: 2

I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood. Votes: 2

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood. Votes: 2

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too. Votes: 2

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood. Votes: 2

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. Votes: 2

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life. Votes: 2

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering. Votes: 2

I had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

I had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

I had a very happy childhood. Votes: 0

I had a marvelously happy childhood. Votes: 0

I look back to a happy childhood. Votes: 0

It's never to late for a happy childhood. Votes: 0

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult. Votes: 0

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Votes: 0

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life. Votes: 0

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. Votes: 0

It is never too late to have a happy childhood Votes: 0

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. Votes: 0

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ... Votes: 0

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. Votes: 0

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. Votes: 0

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. Votes: 0

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood. Votes: 0

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow. Votes: 0

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. Votes: 0

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. Votes: 0

Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together. Votes: 0

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means. Votes: 0

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. Votes: 0

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town. Votes: 0

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Votes: 0

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. Votes: 0

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away." Votes: 0

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. Votes: 0

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood. Votes: 0

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone. Votes: 0

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, Votes: 0

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life. Votes: 0

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky. Votes: 0

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy Votes: 0

All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness! Votes: 0

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. Votes: 0

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything. Votes: 0

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower. Votes: 0

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥ Votes: 0

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes. Votes: 0

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown. Votes: 0

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief? Votes: 0

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. Votes: 0

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun. Votes: 0

I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special. Votes: 0

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others. Votes: 0