P. D. James Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

  P. D. James

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

• I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

  P. D. James

  School, People, Childhood

• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  P. D. James

  Childhood, Prison, Appeals

  P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

• You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

  P. D. James

  People, Childhood, Kind

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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