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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about childhood that will inspire your inner childlike innocence.
What Is Childhood Sayings
1. “Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul” – Ivan Doig
2. “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good” – Katherine Anne Porter
3. “Childhood is the most valuable thing that’s taken away from you in life, if you think about it” – Heather O’Neill
4. “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
5. “Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful” – Kailash Satyarthi
6. “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
7. “Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown” – George Eliot
8. “Childhood is the light of our life, we must keep it safe within our hearts” – Marinela Reka
Short Quotes About Childhood
9. “Childhood is a short season” – Helen Hayes
10. “Childhood is the sleep of reason” – Hal Porter
11. “Childhood is a promise that is never kept” – Ken Hill
12. “All of us are products of our childhood” – Michael Jackson
13. “Praise the innocence of childhood soon forgotten” – Will Leamon
14. “Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one” – Wendy Dale
15. “A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood” – Amos Bronson Alcott
16. “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons” – Jerry Smith
Funny Quotes About Childhood
17. “Childhood has no necessary connection with age” – Austin O’Malley
18. “Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood” – Pablo Neruda
19. “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days” – Flannery O’Connor
20. “Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet” – Alain de Botton
Quotes On Childhood Memories
21. “Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke” – Julian Barnes
22. “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in” – Robert Brault
23. “When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly” – Dan Simmons
24. “The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness” – Carson McCullers
25. “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
26. “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older” – Tom Stoppard
27. “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
28. “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
Quotes About Magic Of Childhood
29. “Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing” – Eugene Ionesco
30. “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” – G.K. Chesterton
31. “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in” – Graham Greene
32. “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood” – Agatha Christie
33. “Childhood dreams are forever stuffed in our souls. Take them out and play sometimes” – Angie Wieland-Crosby
34. “A happy childhood is perhaps the most fortunate gift in life” – Dorothy Richardson
35. “The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day” – John Milton
36. “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it” – George Eliot
Quotes On Childhood Innocence
37. “What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever” – Mary Jo Putney
38. “Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it” – Samuel Smiles
39. “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” – Dave Pelzer
40. “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows” – John Betjeman
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