Quotes About Childhood

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. Nobody that matters, that is.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.

We used to play spin the bottle when I was a kid. A girl would spin the bottle and if it pointed to you when it stopped, the girl could either kiss you or give you a dime. By the time I was 14, I owned my own home.

When I was a boy, my mother wore a mood ring. When she was in a good mood it turned blue. In a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead.

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.