Childhood Quotes and Sayings

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- Lydia M. Child

You’re never too old to have a happy childhood.
- Author Unknown

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out.  In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
- Robert Brault

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
- John Milton

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
- Benjamin Franklin

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
- Samuel Richardson

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

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- John Betjeman

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
- Sigmund Freud

Childhood is a short season.
- Helen Hayes

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.
- Dorothy Parker

And we had a DJ – my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin’ and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
- Jami Gertz

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- Author Unknown

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
- Mariska Hargitay

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
- Anonymous

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
- Bill Cosby

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Marcel Proust

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