Quotes About Childhood

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

What's your name? Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer. That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you? Yes

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance. Huckleberry

Hello Huckleberry! Hello, yourself, and see how you like it. What's that you got? Dead cat. Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him? Bought him off'n a boy.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.

Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.

In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of

Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.