Childhood Quotes

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman



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


He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold


Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves
~ Kahlil Gibran

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

It is never too late to have a happy childhood
~ Tom Robbins

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


Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal


Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Louise J. Kaplan

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Thomas Szasz