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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

Patsy Cline

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

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

Agatha Christie

Life

Childhood

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Ray Charles

Music

Childhood

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Shaun Cassidy

Childhood

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Neal Cassady

Life

Childhood

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Marcel Carne

Childhood

Forget

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.