31 Quotes About Childhood

Childhood trauma can have an adverse effect that impacts you for a lifetime. These quotes about childhood will remind you that not all things from the past are bad.

“A happy childhood? is the worst possible preparation for life.”

“All of us are products of our childhood.”

“Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them.”

“Childhood has no necessary connection with age.”

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

“Childhood is a short season.”

“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. ”

“Childhood is like being drunk. Everyone remembers what you did, except you.”

“Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.”

“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.”

“Childhood is the light of our life, we must keep it safe within our hearts.”

“Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.”

“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.”

“Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.”

“How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, when I found recollection presents them to view.”

“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”

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

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

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”

“Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.”

“Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.”

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

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

“There are things about your childhood you hold into, because they were so much part of you. The places you went, the people you knew.”

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”

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

“There is no land like the land of your childhood.”

“There was a place in childhood that I remember well, and there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”

“We see how early childhood experiences are so important to lifelong outcomes, how the early environment literally becomes embedded in the brain and changes its architecture.”

“What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.”

“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.”

Focusing on early childhood development can alter the state of one’s childhood and change their future for the better.