Childhood Quotes

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

John Milton

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose

Garrison Keillor

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood

Sam Ewing

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Richard Zera

Childhood is a short season.

Helen Hayes

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never

Anna Jameson

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle

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

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

George Eliot

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood

Beryl Bainbridge

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson
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