Childhood Quotes

“I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.”

“I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.”

"Time is a game played beautifully by children."

Heraclitus

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try and substitute ours for theirs."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood."

Friedrich Froebel

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.”

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Graham Greene

"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows."

John Betjeman

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."

Robertson Davies

"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."

Rachel Carson

“I had a stutter when I was young. I went to speech therapy.”

“When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.”

“When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of "Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol."

“As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.”