- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood Quotes
On memory, nostalgia, and the years that shaped us.
This collection captures childhood in very different forms, a self-sufficient upbringing with a cow and vegetable gardens, and a holiday that has slowly lost its old magic as it grew more secular. See Hope quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
- Diabetes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020