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Childhood Quotes

Childhood is perhaps the most beautiful period of one’s life. During childhood, everything appears to be warm and glowing. Everything seems to be a wonderful medley of laughter and frolic during this wonderful phase. The joys of childhood can never be substituted for anything else. Contesting the trials and tribulations of adult life leaves one with a nostalgic yearning for this lovely phase. If you are looking to relive the best days of your life, then these famous babyhood quotations and sayings given below will take you back in time when life was innocent, free and full of gaiety.

Paul Hollywood

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

People
Paul Hollywood
Cole Sprouse

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

Cole Sprouse
Robert Downey Jr.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

Robert Downey Jr.
Kendall Jenner

I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being on horseback.

Kendall Jenner
Henry Thomas

I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn't work anymore, and I had to find something else.

Work
Henry Thomas
Tim Curry

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Imagination
Tim Curry
Agatha Christie

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Life
Agatha Christie
Woody Harrelson

I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

Bible
Woody Harrelson

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers
Charles Baudelaire

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Genius
Charles Baudelaire

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Family Work
Narendra Modi
Maya Rudolph

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Dreams
Maya Rudolph
Fred Rogers

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Work Learning Children
Fred Rogers
Chester Bennington

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Dreams
Chester Bennington
Allison Mack

Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way you feel, so it totally indicates the character you're going to play.

Character
Allison Mack
Ana de Armas

My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.

Freedom
Ana de Armas
Steven Seagal

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

Steven Seagal

Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents - how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.

Katherine Schwarzenegger
Thomas Paine

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Religion Civilization Contradiction Discontentment
Thomas Paine
Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard
Pat Morita

I didn't have a childhood.

Pat Morita
Liza Minnelli

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Greatness Tragedy Daughters
Liza Minnelli
Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Baby Children’s Day Adversity Peace
Thomas Paine
Lily Allen

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

Country Fall Children
Lily Allen

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

Beauty People
Mandy Moore
Bette Midler

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Parents
Bette Midler
Charles Lamb

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

School
Charles Lamb
Sigmund Freud

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

Fathers Parenting
Sigmund Freud
Roger Federer

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Roger Federer
Kristin Kreuk

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

Experience Play Parents
Kristin Kreuk
Marlon Brando

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

Nothing
Marlon Brando
Liv Tyler

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

People Stars Home
Liv Tyler
Anthony Hopkins

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Anthony Hopkins
Eudora Welty

When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

Love Mother’s Day Affection Remembrance
Eudora Welty
H. P. Lovecraft

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Fear
H. P. Lovecraft

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Life
Tim Burton

There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.

School Morning
Alexander Skarsgard
Garrison Keillor

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

Food
Garrison Keillor

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.

School Time
Jonathan Groff
Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.

Water
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Clint Eastwood

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Animals Incorruptibility
Clint Eastwood
Milla Jovovich

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Style Mothers
Milla Jovovich
Marcel Proust

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

Marcel Proust
Bill Bryson

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Bill Bryson
Nikola Tesla

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

Mind
Nikola Tesla
Matt Damon

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

Education Mothers
Matt Damon
Julia Stiles

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

Music Luck
Julia Stiles
Angela Merkel

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

Angela Merkel
Amy Adams

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

Work World Dreams
Amy Adams
Hermann Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Smile God
Hermann Hesse

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Funny Reality Feelings
Stellan Skarsgard
Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Jesse Metcalfe
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Groundwork
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Uma Thurman

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Uma Thurman
Jane Fonda

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jane Fonda
Anna Kendrick

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

Fear
Anna Kendrick
Evan Rachel Wood

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

Evan Rachel Wood
R. Kelly

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

R. Kelly
Charlie Sheen

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Money
Charlie Sheen
Nikki Giovanni

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

Greatness Parents
Nikki Giovanni
Chi Chi Rodriguez

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.

Love
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Jude Law

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

Jude Law
Patrick Stewart

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Patrick Stewart
Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Emily Ratajkowski

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Greatness Home
Emily Ratajkowski
Anthony Hopkins

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Anthony Hopkins
Demi Lovato

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Demi Lovato
Dennis Rodman

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Dennis Rodman
Danny DeVito

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.

World Luck
Danny DeVito
Jameela Jamil

I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.

Jameela Jamil

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Life People
Tim Burton
Kaley Cuoco

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Cool Family Business
Kaley Cuoco
Luke Evans

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

Family
Luke Evans
Debbie Reynolds

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Living
Debbie Reynolds
Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Home Youth
Charles Dickens
Judy Garland

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

Struggles Time
Judy Garland
Nick Foles

My mom and dad both worked when I was little... My mom, her mom died when she was 11, so she had a rough childhood as well. She put herself through college in three years at the University of Texas - while working a job to pay for it.

Jobs
Nick Foles
Tia Mowry

When I got on set, and these huge, big lights come on, it brings on a smell - it's almost like the smell of a light burning a little bit - and I said, 'This reminds me of my childhood,' because I grew up onstage.

Light
Tia Mowry
Tom Stoppard

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Chance Happiness
Tom Stoppard

The hardest people to play in front of are my brothers and friends from childhood, because I can never take them seriously. I know when they're sitting in the stands; it's constant jokes. They're just waiting on me to shoot an air ball or dribble the ball off my foot so they can laugh.

People
Jimmy Butler
Taylor Swift

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

Taylor Swift

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

School Mothers
Seth MacFarlane
Ben Shapiro

Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.

Work
Ben Shapiro
Doja Cat

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

Music
Doja Cat
Tyler Perry

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

Pain People
Tyler Perry
Plutarch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Music
Jamie Foxx

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.

Army
Gerard Butler
Virginia Woolf

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Greatness Space
Virginia Woolf
Melania Trump

I love my childhood. It was a beautiful childhood.

Love
Melania Trump
Steven Seagal

I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

Love Music
Steven Seagal
Demi Lovato

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

School
Demi Lovato
Dakota Johnson

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

People
Dakota Johnson
Orlando Bloom

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

Life
Orlando Bloom
William Gibson

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Heart
William Gibson
Donnie Yen

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.

Learning
Donnie Yen
Kurt Cobain

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Good
Kurt Cobain
Don DeLillo

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Things Work
Don DeLillo
Jake Gyllenhaal

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

Cooking
Jake Gyllenhaal

Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall - I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein's new fragrances is kind of surreal.

Face
Charlie Hunnam