More quotations tagged with “childhood”
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
—Colette
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
—Dave Pelzer in A Child Called "It"
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy—they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.
—James D. Watson
You can go through life and make new friends every year—every month practically—but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.
—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Nature was my kindergarten.
—William Christopher Handy