If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
- Tom Stoppard
Childhood Quotes and Sayings
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
- Katherine Anne Porter
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
- Benjamin Spock
I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Ambrose Bierce
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
- Ned Rorem
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
- Richard Zera
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
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
- Martin Luther
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that’s just not what happened.
- Augusten Burroughs
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there’s a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
- David Gest
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
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
- Bob Filner