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Childhood  Quotes
Beating heroin is child’s play compared to beating your childhood.

—Stephen King

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She looked at me for a second and said, “Oh, never mind. I guess it’s true what Mom said? That you’ve led a sheltered life?”I said I thought the description fairly apt.

—Susan Hubbard

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Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

—Sarah Addison

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A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society’s gates open to welcome him; he...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at...

—Alice Munro

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You’re a kid,’ said Alexandra. ‘There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

—A.J. Hartley

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magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve...

—Charles de Lint

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her daughter”.

—Carla H. Krueger

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What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

—Delmore Schwartz

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Somehow, the days of summer with their glimmering enchantment of dancing ladybugs and sailing clouds had faded into grey. Maddie’s heart had somehow faded with it.

—David Paul Kirkpatrick

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Those 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.

—George Eliot

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You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

—Idries Shah

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Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

—Ivan Doig

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Apesar de eu não saber ler, distinguia bem entre as letras hebraicas, impressas no lado esquerdo do devocionário, e as alemãs, no lado direito. As hebraicas agradavam-me mais: vistosas, arredondadas, levavam, por cima e por...

—Ilse Losa

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No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.

—Federico Fellini

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My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

—Gerald Durrell

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Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

—Lynne Rae

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By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet,...

—John Holt

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The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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Childhood only comes around once. Make your child’s memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

—K. Lamb

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It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been...

—Marcel Proust

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Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

—Lew Wallace

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There’s the parent you want and the parent you have.

—Karen Harrington

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I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

—L.K. Elliott

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Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

—Robert M.

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I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad’s massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It was something I did frequently throughout my childhood with music, comedy and film,...

—Simon Pegg

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What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours – that is what one must arrive at. Loneliness of the kind one knew...

—Rainer Maria

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Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It’s never be gone.

—Savan Solanki

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As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape one liked, man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...

—Scott Kaelen

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Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her.

—Yolanda A.

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You see, I don’t think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

—C.S. Lewis

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Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

—Alison Bechdel

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In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

—Brandon Stanton

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My sister’s bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It...

—Charles Dickens

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I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now …

—C.J. Heck

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I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new...

—E.L. Doctorow

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… because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one...

—Charlotte Eriksson

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I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

—George Carlin

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I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don’t know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

—Crystal Woods

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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

—Henri Frederic

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Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made...

—Deborah Feldman

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For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

—Harriet Ann

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I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won’t go away…

—Gabe A.

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I’d had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

—Dean Koontz

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Todo niño es un artista que canta, baila, pinta, cuenta historias y construye castillos. Los grandes artistas son personas extrañas que han logrado preservar en el fondo de su alma esa candidez sagrada de la...

—Ernesto Sábato

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I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the...

—Monty Roberts

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Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha’s wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no...

—Leo Tolstoy

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The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.

—Marilyn Manson

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Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in...

—Lauren Groff

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