300+ Famous Happy Childhood Quotes To Cherish Your Old Times

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Childhood is one of the most beautiful and enjoyable phases of life. Childhood quotes take you down memory lane and help you cherish the good old days and get nostalgic. These quotes capture the essence of childhood, highlighting the joy, innocence, and lessons learned during this important time. They remind us of the value of nurturing our inner child and how our early experiences shape our lives. You associate your childhood with beautiful memories, fights with your siblings, mischief with friends, playfulness from dawn to dusk, and many more. In this post, we have compiled several quotes about childhood that everyone can relate to and help you relive the good times. Read on.

Quotes About Childhood memories

Childhood is filled with happy memories that can bring back a slice of that life any time you recall. Here are some childhood memories quotes from others.

1. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”-Patrick Rothfuss
2. “Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”- Adam Sandler
3. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”-Jim Henson
4. “Walking to school with friends and carrying heavy backpacks filled with dreams create childhood memories that stay with us.” – Anonymous
5. “The warm and comforting homemade meals encompass the taste of my entire childhood, and it never fades.” – Anonymous
6. “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”- Agatha Christie
7. “Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”- Sarah Addison Allen
8. “My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”- Gerald Durrell
9. “There is no land like the land of your childhood.”- Michael Powell
10. “Skipping school, going on secret adventures, and breaking the rules brings back sweet memories of childhood rebellion.” – Anonymous
11. “When I was a little girl fairy tales were my favorite books because even before you opened them you knew how they were going to end. Happily ever after.” – Nicola Yoon
12. “Playgrounds filled with laughter become the places where lifelong friendships are formed, and we cherish those childhood bonds.” – Anonymous
13. “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”- Ellen Glasgow
14. “Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood – the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.”- Sylvia Plath
15. “Colorful crayon drawings on the walls live to tell the magnificent tales of a glorious childhood.” – Anonymous
16. “Hiding under blankets during thunderstorms and finding refuge in mom’s embrace are the safe moments of childhood.” – Anonymous
17. “Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.”- Dylan Lauren
18. “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing
19. “Climbing trees and scraping knees are the scars of childhood adventures that speak of those carefree and fearless days.” – Anonymous
20. “Childhood memories are made of rain-soaked afternoons, where every drop was a new adventure.”– Anonymous
21. “Chasing ice cream trucks and getting sticky hands remind us of the simple happiness of childhood.” – Anonymous
22. “I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.” – Bobby Flay
23. “There’s something about childhood friends that you just can’t replace.”- Lisa Whelchel

24. “Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.”- Homaro Cantu

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25. “My childhood is a part of my story, and it’s why I’m who I am today and why my career is what it is.”- Misty Copeland
26. “Childhood memories are like seeds that bloom into the flowers of our adult lives, nurturing our souls with their timeless fragrance.” – Anonymous
27. “Muddy shoes and soiled clothes were our medals of honor during childhood, marking our adventures in the wild.”– Anonymous
28. “Running through fields of wildflowers, we chased not just butterflies but also the fleeting essence of childhood.”– Unknown
29. “In the playground of nostalgia, childhood memories swing us back to a simpler time when laughter was our favorite song.” – Anonymous
30. “The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.”- Barbara Kingsolver
31. “Our past is a gallery of childhood memories, each a masterpiece painting the portrait of who we are today.” – Anonymous
32. “Running barefoot on the beach, collecting seashells and salty kisses from the ocean, is a fond childhood memory.”– Unknown
33. “Like footprints in the sands of time, childhood memories leave imprints of innocence and joy on the shores of our hearts.” – Anonymous
34. “My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents I had my parents around. I had my uncles around – whatever.”- Action Bronson
35. “In the symphony of life, childhood memories compose the sweetest melodies, resonating with the purest notes of happiness.” – Anonymous
36. “The magic of childhood lies in their ability to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary memories.” – Anonymous
37. “I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.”- Christa B. Allen
38. “Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections—a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around—it didn’t seem enough to last a whole lifetime.”- Jennifer E. Smith
39. “The diary of our hearts is filled with childhood memories, pages written in the ink of innocence and bound by the threads of love.” – Anonymous
40. “Childhood memories are the stepping stones of our journey, guiding us with the wisdom of innocence and the joy of discovery.” – Anonymous
41. “Being a kid was much more fun than being an adult. Life was sweeter then.”- Trevor Carss
42. “One Christmas Eve in my childhood, my dad asked if I wanted to leave alcohol out for Santa. I agreed but said to only leave a little as I was afraid I’d wake up on Christmas morning and see Santa drunkenly circling over our house in his sleigh.”- Stewart Stafford
43. “The album of childhood memories is a gallery of smiles, where each photograph captures a moment of pure happiness.” – Anonymous
44. “In the attic of our minds, childhood memories are the old trunks filled with treasures that never lose their shine.” – Anonymous
45. “Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”- Mariska Hargitay
46. “Like a river that never runs dry, childhood memories flow through the landscape of our minds, nourishing our souls.” – Anonymous
47. “In the library of life, childhood memories are the books we revisit often, finding new wisdom and joy on every page.” – Anonymous
48. “Childhood memories are the lanterns that light up the darkest corners of our hearts, dispelling shadows with their warmth.” – Anonymous
49. “People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don’t you feel a certain alienation?”- Gunter Grass
50. “We grow up but we never grow old because we are tied to the beautiful memories of our past, especially our childhood. Never lose the child in you. For me, having a heart of a child is still beautiful. It makes me feel alive.”- Verliza Gajeles
51. “Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”-Julian Barnes
52. “Like a gentle breeze that carries the scent of flowers, childhood memories refresh our souls with the fragrance of joy.” – Anonymous
53. “The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.”- Kilroy J. Oldster
54. “That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn’t want any of those things. I didn’t want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.”- Jenny Lawson
55. “The simple joys of childhood create ripples that touch the shores of our existence even as grown-ups.” – Anonymous
56. “Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.”- Paul Auster

57. “Contemplating childhood is like contemplating a beautiful region as one rides backwards; one really becomes aware of the beauty at that moment, that very instant, when it begins to vanish.”- Soren Kierkegaard
58. “All of us are products of our childhood.”- Michael Jackson
59. “Magical excitement underpins childhood Christmases, post-Christmas debt overtakes adult ones.”- Stewart Stafford
60. “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.”- The Wonder Years
61. “Childhood memories are like the GPS of our lives, guiding us back to our true north when we lose our way.” – Unknown
62. “The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.”- John Le Carre
63. “I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.”- Carolina Herrera
64. “My childhood, I wouldn’t say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what’s wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brotherfollowing me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what’s right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn’t nothing good outside for me.”- Russell Westbrook
65. “Our adult selves are like trees, and childhood memories are the roots that anchor us in the soil of our past.” – Anonymous
66. “I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now.”- J. Heck
67. “How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, when I found recollection presents them to view!”- Samuel Woodworth
68. “Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”- Alain de Botton
69. “I think because I’m not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.”- Spike Jonze
70. “I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”- David Walliams
71. “Childhood friendships, etched in our memories, teach us the value of loyalty and lasting connections as we navigate adult relationships.” – Anonymous
72. “I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”- Nicholas Sparks

73. “My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It’s a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”-Luca Parmitano
74. “In the hustle and bustle of adulthood, revisiting childhood memories can offer a peaceful escape and a fresh perspective.” – Anonymous
75. “Sometimes, it’s better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because today, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.”- P.J. Abdul Kalam
76. “It reminded her of how she’d once felt hearing a lost childhood song… That vapor of some wonderful and longing emotion that she could no longer feel. Something she’d never had and yet had somehow lost… That she couldn’t remember, yet desperately wanted back.”- Ryan P. Cole
77. “Childhood memories of simple pleasures and carefree moments remind us to savor the small joys in our busy adult lives.” – Anonymous
78. “Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.”- Harry Stack Sullivan
79. “When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.”- Katie Lee
80. “When you hear the words ‘magic’ and ‘story’, they will probably evoke thoughts of your favorite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.” – Tony DiTerlizzi
81. “The strength of adulthood is rooted in the resilience we developed during our childhood trials.” – Unknown
82. “I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I’ve only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.” – Orson Welles
83. “My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” – Flip Wilson
84. “What one loves about childhood, it stays in the heart forever.” –Mary Jo Putney
85. “Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.”- Jenny Han
86. “Childhood memories are the spark that ignites our creativity in adulthood, reminding us of the unrestrained imagination we once had.” – Unknown
87. “We carry our childhood with us.”- Gary D. Schmidt
88. “I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.”- Sam Heughan
89. “Childhood is the light of our life, we must keep it safe within our hearts.”- Marinela Reka

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90. “When I was growing up, I remember my mother saying, “Your friends are like elevators; they will bring you up or down – the choice is yours.”- David DeNotaris
91. “My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.”- Dan Groat
92. “Childhood memories of learning and discovery lay the foundation for our thirst for knowledge and personal growth in adulthood.” – Anonymous
93. “…when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells – I’ve never forgotten that moment…”- John Geddes
94. “I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It’s a throwback to my childhood in Hawaii. I have memories of coming out of the sea and eating corn chips with a strawberry vanilla slush.”- Marie Helvin
95. “Don’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?”- Sarah Addison Allen
96. “I loved ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.’ It was such a big part of my childhood.”- Megan Fox
97. “In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”- Robert Brault
98. “Childhood never lasts. But everyone deserves one”.– Wendy Dale
99. “When I was a kid, I imagined flying holding balloons.”- Luffina Lourduraj
100. “That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle – beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.”- Sylvia Plath
101. “Our first memory represents our initial state of consciousness.”- Kilroy J. Oldster
102. “Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure paint the foreground of his life.”- Samuel Smiles
103. “Remember the thrill of riding a bike without training wheels for the first time?” – Anonymous
104. “Nostalgia for childhood is painted in the hues of sidewalk chalk and the taste of homemade lemonade.” – Anonymous
105. “I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. In a dream world, the bread is super soft, like the Wonder Bread of my childhood, and the sandwich will have crunchy peanut butter, strawberry jam, and a cup of cold milk to go with it.”-Shaun King
106. “My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.”- Roberto Benigni
107. “Recall the days when a pile of leaves was an invitation to jump into a world of autumn adventures.” – Anonymous
108. “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
109. “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”- Marcel Proust
110. “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”- Neil Gaiman
111. “The nostalgia of childhood can be found in the echoes of hide-and-seek and the taste of warm cookies.” – Anonymous
112. “Recall the days when catching fireflies felt like capturing a jar of twinkling stars.” – Anonymous
113. “One of the great lessons I remember my dad constantly emphasizing in our family while I was growing up was ‘Use your R&I.’ That is, use your resourcefulness and initiative. He taught us that we were not victims of the circumstances surrounding us, but rather masters of our own destiny.”- Stephen Covey
114. “I’ve got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with ‘the Nature Boy’ on the back. That’s awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.”- Darius Rucker
115. “Recall the days when a backyard adventure was as grand as an expedition to the wild.” – Anonymous
116. “Remember the thrill of building a sandcastle on the beach, waves crashing nearby?” – Anonymous
117. “We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives – things we’ve learnt since childhood that we don’t even consciously realise are going on.”-Derren Brown
118. “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”- Diane Ackerman
119. “Some of my earliest and fondest memories of my mother are of her kneeling at the side of per bed every night and praying. As a child, I would always get very close to her as she prayed. I would put my ear as close as I could to her mouth and try my best to hear what she was saying to God, but I never could make out the words. Today, being married to an addict myself, I’m pretty sure I know exactly what she was praying.”- Barbara Bice
120. “Childhood friends are precious like pearls.” –Lailah Gifty Akita
121. “Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things-new experiences, new emotions-and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvelously finished pavilion of the self.”- John Banville
122. “The memories of childhood touch us forever.”- James Barrie
123. “Childhood is the most valuable thing that’s taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”- Heather O’Neill
124. “In the world of children, a swing set was a ticket to the skies, touching the clouds with every push.” – Anonymous
125. “The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”- Richard Paul Evans
126. “Remember, childhood only lasts 10–12 years. There’s a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories.” – Susan Branch
127. “A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”– Marion C. Garretty
128. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”– Chili Davis
129. “Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle! ” – Mehmet Murat İldan
130. “Praise the innocence of childhood soon forgotten.” -Will Leamon
131. “Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”- Ivan Doig
132. “What one loves in childhood stays in their heart forever.”- Hary Jo Putney
133. “Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”- Richard Paul Evans
134. “In the world of children, a treehouse was a secret sanctuary where friendships were forged.” – Anonymous
135. “But nothing warps time quite like childhood”- Brian K. Vaughan
136. “These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.”- Pat Conroy
137. “My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.”- Morrissey
138. “Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.”- Cate Kennedy
139. “People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.”- Adriana Trigiani
140. “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”- Cynthia Ozick
141. “What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?”- Dan Simmons
142. “The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale…”- Vera Nazarian
143. “I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old”- Jeremy Aldana
144. “I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn’t change.”- Monty Roberts
145. “Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.”- Florence Fabricant
146. “Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”- E. Stevenson
147. “Here is the door of my mom’s house, a well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.”- Dan Chaon
148. “There is no scent of nostalgia like a fragrance drawn from the garden of childhood memories.”- Aloo Denish
149. “The best days of my childhood were spent at the library.”- Jennifer Spredemann
150. “My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.”-Valorie Curry

Inspirational Quotes About Childhood

A child can teach a lot to adults—innocence, positivity, curiosity, excitement, and trust. These quotes tell you more about how inspiring childhood can be. Inspirational childhood quotes remind us of the values from our early years, encouraging us to embrace our inner child and carry those lessons into adulthood.

151. “Children see magic because they look for it.”- Christopher Moore
152. “In adulthood, we often find inspiration in the boundless potential and fearlessness we displayed as children, propelling us forward.” – Anonymous
153. “No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.”- Amy Tan
154. “Every year, when you’re a child, you become a different person.” – Alice Munro
155. “The greatest lessons in life are often learned from the smallest teachers.”– Unknown
156. “Childhood, like a kite, teaches us to reach for the skies with unwavering hope.” – Unknown
157. “Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.”-Jonathan Harnisch
158. “The child I was is just one breath away from me.”- Sheniz Janmohamed
159. “Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.”- Oliver Wendell Holmes
160. “Childhood is where the heart learns to sing before it knows of sorrow.” – Unknown
161. “Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, they make this world a beautiful garden.” – Anonymous
162. “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.”- Tim Burton
163. “The smallest feet leave the biggest footprints on our hearts.” – Anonymous
164. “Childhood is a brief candle that burns with the purest of flames.” – Anonymous
165. “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene
166. “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older”- Tom Stoppard
167. “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.”- Jerry Smith
168. “When I was younger, I use to laugh at my mom when she was silly. Now that I’m older, I find myself just as silly as her. Thanks mom, for teaching us that even as adults, it’s OK to be fun and enjoy life laughing. I now get to teach my nephews and stepdaughter the same thing.”-April Mae Monterrosa
169. “The values instilled in us during childhood continue to shape our character and guide our moral compass as adults.” – Anonymous
170. “A child’s laughter is the universe’s way of reminding us that joy is found in the simplest moments.” – Anonymous
171. “Never stop screaming, playing and laughing, it’s part of our childhood which will always be with us.”- Romina Noriega
172. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”- Walt Steeightiff
173. “In the hands of a child, every toy is a tool for building a brighter future.” – Anonymous
174. “We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”- Harry Edwards
175. “So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.”- Gaston Bachelard
176. “Every child is a masterpiece in progress, waiting to reveal its full potential.” – Anonymous
177. “Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”- Pablo Neruda
178. “Children are magic because they look for it.” – Christopher Moore
179. “In the eyes of a child, we glimpse the purest reflection of our own humanity.” – Anonymous
180. “What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world.”- K. Chesterton
181. “Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”- S. Lewis
182. “No matter what happens, always keep your childhood innocence. It’s the most important thing.”- Federico Fellini
183. “The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”- John Milton
184. “There was a place in childhood that I remember well, and there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”- Samuel Lover
185. “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”- John Betjeman
186. “Children are the architects of our future, and their dreams hold the blueprints of hope.” – Anonymous
187. “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”- Flannery O’Connor
188. “Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”- Edna St. Vincent Millay
189. “In challenging times, we often draw strength from childhood memories, as they represent a time when we overcame obstacles with a pure heart.” – Anonymous
190. “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”- Markus Zusak
191. “Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.”- Kailash Satyarthi
192. “In adulthood, we draw strength from the well of childhood memories, replenishing our spirits in times of need.” – Anonymous
193. “Genius is childhood recalled at will.”- Charles Baudelaire
194. “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”- Dave Pelzer

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195. “Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!”- Max Muller
196. “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.”- Fred Rogers
197. “The lessons we learned from our childhood experiences become invaluable tools as we navigate the challenges and decisions of adulthood.” – Anonymous
198. “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.”- Elizabeth Lawrence
199. “Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”– Audrey Niffenegger
200. “During times of loss, childhood memories provide a bridge to the past, allowing us to reconnect with loved ones who live on in our hearts.” – Anonymous
201. “Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”- Orson Scott Card
202. “When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.”- Karl Ove Knausgard
203. “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.”- Katherine Anne Porter
204. “In adulthood, we often find inspiration in the determination and fearlessness we exhibited as children, pushing us to achieve our goals.” – Anonymous
205. “These memories of who I was and where I lived are important to me. They make up a large part of who I’m going to be when my journey winds down. I need the memory of magic if I am ever going to conjure magic again. I need to know and remember, and I want to tell you.”- Robert R. McCammon
206. “Childhood memories of exploration and curiosity fuel our desire for adventure as adults, driving us to explore new horizons.” – Anonymous
207. “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”- John Connolly
208. “I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing – without the traditional interruption of academic training.”- Saul Steinberg
209. “During moments of self-doubt, we can find reassurance in our childhood achievements, reminding us that we are capable of greatness.” – Anonymous
210. “And that’s when I heard the whisper in my heart’s ear: “It’s not about your childhood. It’s about who you are!”- JoyBell C.
211. “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.”- Malcolm De Chazal
212. “Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
213. “When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood that can be summoned most clearly.”- Dan Simmons
214. “Childhood memories of mentors and role models continue to guide us in our professional journeys as adults.” – Anonymous
215. “I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”- Sherman Alexie
216. “In adulthood, our ability to find humor in difficult situations often harks back to the laughter shared in childhood memories.” – Anonymous
217. “Childhood is the only time when our laughter is not diluted by pain and worries.” – Anonymous
218. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”-Frederick Douglass
219. “In adulthood, we appreciate the love and support of our childhood caregivers even more, realizing the sacrifices they made for us.” – Anonymous
220. “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it.”- George Eliot
221. “Childhood Is the Best of All the Seasons of Life, And the Longer It Lasts with Happy Memories, Stronger the Emotional Stability in Adulthood.”- Venugopal Acharya
222. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”- Angela Schwindt
223. “Memories of exploring nature and the great outdoors during childhood, inspire us to protect and cherish our environment as adults.” – Anonymous
224. “A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature.”- Maria Montessori
225. “A child’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.”- Dorothea Brande
226. “Childhood memories of holidays and traditions create a sense of continuity and belonging that we carry into our adult lives.” – Anonymous
227. “I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”- JoyBell C.
228. “Childhood memories of family gatherings and shared meals teach us the importance of togetherness and connection in adulthood.” – Anonymous
229. “A child can teach an adult three things- To be happy for no reason, to always be curious, and to fight tirelessly for something.”- Paul Coelho
230. “The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.”- B. White
231. “Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child.”- Magda Gerber
232. “It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.”- R.Knost
233. “Childhood contains prophecies of what awaits us as an adult. No doubt about that. Powerful totems are bound up in trifles.”- Glenn Haybittle
234. What if having a whole childhood was the key to a healthy adulthood?”- Ainsley Arment
235. “I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”- Beatrix Potter
236. “What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you’re so wrecked it’s hard to believe you ever were a child?” – Mitch Albom
237. “Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve.” – Penny Whitehouse
238. “Childhood dreams are forever stuffed in our souls. Take them out and play sometimes.” – Angie Wieland-Crosby
239. “Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, tree, sticks, and tadpoles.”- Brooke Hampton
240. “That’s what makes it so right. Your eyes-your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That’s the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you’ve seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.”- Bree Despain
241. “You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
242. “Don’t be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.”- Barry Hughart
243. “The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.”- Ilse Aichinger
244. “What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?”- Leo Tolstoy
245. “Stay true to your childhood dreams.”- Lailah Gifty Akita
246. “A happy childhood is perhaps the most fortunate gift in life.”- Dorothy Richardson

Funny Childhood Quotes

Some stories about childhood can have you and others in splits no matter how many times you recount them. These funny quotes capture the playful spirit of childhood, reminding us of the joy, innocence, and silly moments that made those years special. Experience those funny memories once again with these quotes.

247. “I’m in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.”- Pete Wentz
248. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”-Tom Robbins

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249. “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”- Jane Yolen
250. “Childhood is when you learn that your parents were magicians, making things appear and disappear with a wave of their hands, especially cookies.” – Anonymous
251. “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
252. “Being a kid is like having a superpower – the ability to find joy in the simplest things, like a cardboard box or a puddle.” – Anonymous
253. “Childhood: where scraped knees were our badges of honor, and broccoli was the sworn enemy of every kid’s dinner plate.” – Anonymous
254. “Remember when the only stress in life was trying to finish your homework before the Saturday morning cartoons started?”– Anonymous
255. “Childhood is like being drunk. Everyone remembers what you did, except you.”-Anonymous
256. “The best detective work I did as a child was trying to figure out who ate the last cookie in the jar.” – Anonymous
257. “Childhood: where naps were the daily workout, and pajamas were the official uniform.”– Anonymous
258. “When you’re a kid, you’re convinced that your blanket has superhero powers and can protect you from monsters under the bed.” – Anonymous
259. “In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees.”- Philip Roth
260. “Childhood is when you could have a full-blown conversation with your imaginary friend and not be considered crazy.” – Anonymous
261. “Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”- Ray Romano
262. “As a kid, I thought ‘naptime’ was the universe’s way of saying, ‘Here’s a chance to recharge your energy!'” – Anonymous
263. “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.”- Edward Carey
264. “When you’re young, a band-aid has magical healing powers that can mend any ‘ouchie,’ no matter how small.” – Anonymous
265. “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
266. “Childhood is when you could wear a superhero cape to the grocery store and nobody would question it.” – Anonymous
267. “Childhood is the time when you see Jerry and admire his smartness.”-Anonymous
268. “In my childhood, I thought the Bermuda Triangle was a place where socks mysteriously disappeared from the laundry.” – Anonymous
269. “I don’t want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.”- Robert Downey, Jr.
270. “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.”- Prince William
271. “Childhood is when ‘don’t touch that’ becomes an irresistible invitation to touch it immediately.” – Anonymous
272. “Am I the only one who spent large portion of childhood waiting for my superpowers to kick in?”-Anonymous
273. “As a kid, I believed that eating crusts would make my hair curly. Little did I know, genetics had other plans.” – Anonymous
274. “Some children threaten to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”- Phyllis Diller
275. “Childhood: the only time when playing with your food is not just allowed but encouraged.” – Anonymous
276. “Don’t you find it odd that when you’re a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you’re older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”- Ethan Hawke
277. “In my childhood, I thought ‘grown-up’ meant knowing how to parallel park and paying taxes. I was so wrong.” – Anonymous
278. “Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal… ‘Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?’”- Steven Wright
279. “Childhood is when you’d rather pretend to be a dinosaur than listen to a lecture on algebra.” – Anonymous
280. “There are perhaps no days of childhood that we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”- Marcel Proust

281. “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”- Anonymous
282. “When you’re young, every bug is a potential superhero sidekick, except for spiders – they’re definitely supervillains.” – Anonymous
283. “During my childhood, getting a new toy felt like winning the jackpot.” – Anonymous
284. “Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.”- Carolyn Haywood
285. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”- Seuss
286. “Childhood is when you could fit an entire week’s worth of energy into a single game of tag.” – Anonymous
287. “In childhood, the most important daily decision often was choosing between square or dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets.” – Anonymous
288. “I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or eat ice- cream straight out of the container.”- Bill Bryson
289. “In my childhood, a snow day was the ultimate jackpot, better than winning the lottery.” – Anonymous
290. “I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.”- Jon Heder
291. “When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.”- Rita Rudner
292. “Childhood: where you’d rather watch cartoons in your pajamas than attend a fancy gala in a tuxedo.” – Anonymous
293. “I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I’m spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.”- Ricky Schroder
294. “As a kid, I thought vegetables were a conspiracy invented by parents to ruin dessert time.” – Anonymous
295. “…so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”- Ransom Riggs
296. “Childhood is when a simple cardboard box is a high-speed race car, a spaceship, and a secret hideout, all in one afternoon.” – Anonymous
297. “A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”-Jerry Seinfeld
298. “Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us but expected?”-Louis de Bernières
299. “Childhood: where you’d pretend to be asleep in the car just so someone would carry you inside when you got home.” – Anonymous
300. “It’s funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Who your best friend is, is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.”- Jenny Han
301. “Childhood is when ‘five more minutes’ was the negotiation tactic that could postpone bedtime indefinitely.” – Anonymous
302. “In my childhood, I believed that a magical tooth fairy would come and leave money under my pillow when I lost a tooth. Adulthood shattered that myth.” – Anonymous
303. “Being a kid means believing you have the world’s best hiding spot, even though your feet are sticking out from behind the curtains.” – Anonymous
304. “Childhood is when you learned the hard way that crayons are not, in fact, a suitable replacement for lipstick.” –Anonymous
305. “Childhood is the time when you could eat dirt and call it ‘gourmet earth cuisine’ without anyone judging your culinary choices.” – Anonymous
306. “The best part of being a kid? You can blame everything on imaginary friends and monsters under the bed.” – Anonymous

Illustration: Famous Happy Childhood Quotes To Cherish Your Old Times

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Infographic: Songs About Childhood Memories

Childhood memories are our favorite, and reminiscing them with music has the power to elicit deep feelings. Go down memory lane with this infographic, which presents a list of songs about childhood and its sweet memories.

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