Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
- Diane Ackerman
Childhood Quotes and Sayings
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
- Anonymous
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm de Chazal
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don’t care to share them.
- Natasha Richardson
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
- John Berger
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 we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
- G. K. Chesterton
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
- Donna Brazile
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
- Karel Capek
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until… we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say “I lost it.
- Sydney J. Harris
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
- Will Ferrell
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
- Maria Calla
What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
- Cynthia Ozick
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
- Cesare Pavese