John Irving Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

  John Irving

  Loss, Childhood, Events

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

• Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

  John Irving

  Ambition, Childhood, Adults

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

• Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

  John Irving

  Childhood, Fancy, Grows

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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