Happy Childhood Quotes

• Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

  Jerry Smith

  Beautiful, Childhood, Seasons

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• A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Childhood, Fortunate

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• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Thinking, Childhood

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Parenting, Fortune Cookie

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• I look back to a happy childhood.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Childhood, Looks

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.20, Wakefield Press

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Happiness, Childhood, Parent

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Diana Tempest”, p.81, Mary Cholmondeley

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• If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

  Agatha Christie

  Childhood, Away From You, Ifs

  Agatha Christie (1993). “A Caribbean Mystery ; A Pocket Full of Rye ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; They Do it with Mirrors”

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

  Rick Steves

  Childhood, Age, Too Late

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• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Parent

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Ashes

  "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir". Book by Frank McCourt, 1996.

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• A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Childhood, Pledge, Ripe

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Role Models, Childhood, Parent

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• I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Mother, Father, Grateful

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I had a happy childhood.

  Alastair Campbell

  Childhood

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• No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

  Sue Grafton

  Childhood, World, Achieve

  "At Home With: Sue Grafton; a Is for Alter Ego". Interview with Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 04, 1994.

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• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  Gary Numan

  Childhood, Different, Mates

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

  Robertson Davies

  Childhood, Belief, Spoiled

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blessed, Childhood, Mars

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• They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

  Josephine Hart

  Keys, Childhood, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

  Anna Quindlen

  Successful, Philadelphia, Childhood

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Happy, Letting Go

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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