Childhood quotes

Relive the innocence of yesteryears and embrace the cherished memories that define your childhood. Dive into a collection of heartfelt quotes that resonate with the spirit of carefree days and playful wonder.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

- Bill Watterson

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

- Bill Watterson

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

- Bill Watterson

Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

- Bill Watterson

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

- Bill Watterson

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

- Bill Watterson

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

- Bill Watterson

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

- Manuel Puig

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

- Bill Watterson

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

- Bill Cosby

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

- Bill Watterson

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

- Barbet Schroeder

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

- Peter Handke

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

- William Graham Sumner

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

- Kary Mullis

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

- Bill Watterson

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

- Lisa Whelchel

I look back to a happy childhood.

- Catherine Helen Spence

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

- Bill Watterson

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

- Charles Dickens

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

- Sandra Cisneros

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

- Hector Hugh Munro

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

- J. M. Barrie

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

- Bill Watterson

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

- Augusten Burroughs

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

- Bill Watterson

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

- Kurt Cobain

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

- Samuel Richardson

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

- Gaston Bachelard