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Childhood Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.”

Camille Paglia

Education, School, Gender, Childhood, Energy

2. “When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.”

Camille Paglia

Childhood, Defense, Gender, Masculinity, Family

3. “When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.”

Mitch Hedberg

Childhood, Bed, Sibling, Wonder, Innocence

4. “I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.”

Mitch Hedberg

Paper Route, Childhood, Job, Experience, Humor

5. “Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?”

Charles Lamb

Science, Poetry, Change, Childhood, Progress

6. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Innocence, Grief, Mortality, Childhood

7. “While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Dreams, Imagination, Innocence, Creativity

8. “A babe is fed with milk and praise.”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Growth, Encouragement, Development, Nurturing

9. “Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child’s heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?”

Charles Lamb

Childhood, Innocence, Wisdom, Growth, Nostalgia

10. “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

Charles Lamb

Law, Childhood, Irony, Profession, Reality

11. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Nostalgia, Childhood, Friendship, Loss, Memory

12. “The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

Margaret Fuller

Parenthood, Experience, Childhood, Growth, Perspective

13. “I was an only child, eventually.”

Steven Wright

Family, Childhood, Siblings, Time, Humor

14. “When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven’t spoken since.”

Steven Wright

Family, Childhood, Strangers, Irony, Humor

15. “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

Childhood, Introversion, Anxiety, School, Memories

16. “When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while I still had no fingerprints.”

Steven Wright

Baby, Crime, Imagination, Childhood, Humor

17. “When I was five years old I was on a merry-go-round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Imagination, Humor, Absurdity, Memory

18. “When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, “Do you have any toy train schedules?””

Steven Wright

Childhood, Playfulness, Humor, Imagination, Absurdity

19. “I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.”

Steven Wright

Change, Growth, Identity, Childhood, Time

20. “When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I’d tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn’t obey.”

Steven Wright

Parenting, Pranks, Humor, Absurdity, Childhood

21. “When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‘Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.’”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Humor, Reflection, Comedy, Personality

22. “Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.”

Steven Wright

Dreams, Childhood, Career, Comedy, Passion

23. “When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Sandbox, Quicksand, Absurdity, Humor

24. “I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Imagination, Perspective, Playfulness, Vision

25. “When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn’t hear what he said.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Friendship, Humor, Media, Sound

26. “I've been thinking of humorous things since I was. I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.”

Steven Wright

Humor, Childhood, Thinking, Comedy, Life

27. “As kids we didn't know many fears, we smiled at strangers, we played with anyone new, we smiled more often, we didn't worry about the future, didn't remember much about the past, we hugged, kissed, cuddled, didn't fear judgement. And then we became "adults"! What a decline!”

Ankur Warikoo

Childhood, Fear, Innocence, Adulthood, Joy

28. “One of the worst parenting acts that I see in India is scolding and hitting the ground when the child falls. Think of the message the child receives!”

Ankur Warikoo

Parenting, Message, Behavior, Empathy, Childhood

29. “I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.”

Jimmy Carter

Father, Family, Love, Childhood, Memories

30. “All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.”

Jimmy Carter

Childhood, Race, Friendship, Memories, Home

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