Childhood Quotes

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
-Tom Stoppard

"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist."
-Ned Rorem

"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."
-Sam Ewing

"Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never."
-Anna Jameson

"Childhood is a short season."
-Helen Hayes

"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..."
-Diane Ackerman

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."
-Edna O'brien

"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
-Jonathan Coe

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost."
-Marion C. Garretty

"It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adults."
-Cynthia Ogden

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
-Graham Greene

"Its never too late to have a happy childhood."
-Tom Robbins

"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence."
-Art Linkletter

"People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children."
-Bill Watterson

"My childhood was absolutely delightful."
-Kate Phillips

"It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall."
-Tammy Wynette

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults."
-Brian W. Aldiss

"It's just like anything -- they want to remember their childhood."
-Jack Lewis

"At the JCC, we want to recreate an aspect of childhood that has been lost."
-Jill Davidson

"Everybody has memories of the zoo from their childhood. Your zoo is still here."
-Beth Poff

"Not about my popularity. People have been supporting me since my childhood. They are supporting me because they want a change not about my popularity."
-George Weah

"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
-Miranda Richardson

"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell."
-Louise Bogan

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."
-Pindar

"The childhood obesity trend is on the rise and has been for decades."
-Lara Trifiletti

"As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body."
-The Dhammapada

"What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood."
-Deborah Davis

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