Childhood Quotes, Sayings about childhood days
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
- John Milton
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
- Rita Dove
A child,like a ball of dough,must be raised to achieve success.
I didn’t have a childhood.
- Pat Morita
Childhood is a short season.
- Helen Hayes
I’ve never outgrown my childhood.
- David McCallum
I gave up my childhood for a career.
- Brenda Lee
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
- Ken Hill
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
- Tom Robbins
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
- Louise J. Kaplan
I’m one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
- Jonathan Coe
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
- Peter Handke
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
- Tom Stoppard
Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.
- William Wordsworth
A happy childhood… is the worst possible preparation for life.
- Kinky Friedman
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
- Pindar
I’m mostly influenced by life, what’s around me, and my own childhood.
- Jack Prelutsky
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
- Tracy Kidder
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
- Harold Ramis
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle aged breast.
- Herbert Gold
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
- Neal Cassady
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- Deepak Chopra
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
- Sigmund Freud
I’ve been following what’s happening in Colombia because it’s the country of my childhood.
- Barbet Schroeder
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
- Leverett Saltonstall
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm de Chazal
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- John Betjeman
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
- Ned Rorem
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
- Katherine Anne
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
- Ellen Glasgow
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
- Sam Ewing
I don’t remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
- Kinky Friedman
What we remember from childhood we remember forever permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
- Cynthia Ozick
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
- Christopher Morley
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That’s what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
- Chester Bennington
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
- Valentina Tereshkova
I’m living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
- Patty Duke
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
- Samuel Richardson
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield a city I’ve known and loved since childhood.
- Samuel West


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