Childhood Quotes

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Childhood is a short season.

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

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.

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.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things that you were just kind of naturally drawn to.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.