Childhood Memories Quotes

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Memories, Luxury, Yummy

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

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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

  Jerry Smith

  Beautiful, Childhood, Seasons

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Christmas, Xmas, Memories

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

  Julian Barnes

  Dream, Memories, Childhood

  Julian Barnes (1998). “England, England”, Vintage

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• In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Childhood

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• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Blow, Childhood

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.156, St. Martin's Press

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• Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Long, Childhood

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.116

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

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Childhood, Fatherhood

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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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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

  Carson McCullers

  Memories, Night, Light

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

  Bobby Flay

  Memories, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free, when there were infinite possibilities of what you could feel, accomplish, and see in the world. Allow for the energy of your remembered freedom to thunder through you, and you will free your self from the false obstacles your adult.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2013

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• I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Children, Years

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John Tenniel (1998). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And, Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Childhood, Toys

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  John Milton

  Time, Morning, Children

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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  It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moving On, Growing Up, Memories

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Childhood

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• 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 pest.

  Steve Irwin

  Memories, Dad, People

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