Childhood Quotes

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.

~ Jakob Böhme

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

~ Marcia Fudge

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

~ Sam Ewing

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

~ Emily Ratajkowski

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

~ W. H. Davies

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

~ Joel Fuhrman

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

~ Mary Quant

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

~ Frank Leslie

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

~ Deforest Kelley

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past.

~ Steve Irwin

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

~ Graham Greene