best quotations about
Childhood |
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Quotations
 | There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 6 likes |
 | I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 5 likes |
 | Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 5 likes |
 | When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Childhood is for spoiling adulthood. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
 | There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
| The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes |
 | Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 2 likes |
 | One of the greatest happinesses that can happen to us in life is to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
 | Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, “Heaven lies about us.” The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. |
 | For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. |
 | We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it… |
 | Being loved by the world is no substitute for having been loved by one person when you were small. |
 | One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes. |
 | In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees. |
 | Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. |
| What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. |
 | Genius: the ability to prolong one’s childhood. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
 | Childhood is perhaps the closest to “real life”. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
Quotes in Verse
 | We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 5 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like “What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”. — Lenny Bruce, 1925-1966, American comedian 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Rosebud! — from the film Citizen Kane (1941) 4 likes |
