Childhood Quotes

Genius is childhood recalled at will. (Charles Baudelaire)
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. View quote
Susie Bright
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. View quote
Gertrude Stein
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. View quote
Beverly Cleary
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. View quote
Graham Greene
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. View quote
Thornton Wilder
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. (H. P. Lovecraft)
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. View quote
Margaret Mead
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. View quote
Andrew Wiles
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. View quote
Andrew Wiles
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. View quote
Beryl Bainbridge
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. View quote
Charles Lamb
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. View quote
Virginia Woolf
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
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. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. (Søren Kierkegaard)
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. View quote
Gordon Korman
Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. View quote
George Eliot
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . . View quote
George Eliot
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot