Top 100 Childhood Happy Quotes
#1. I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#2. 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
#3. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.
Laini Taylor
#4. I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
Sylvia Plath
#5. His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.
Elizabeth Spencer
#6. 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
#7. Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
Albert Einstein
#8. I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.
Lucy Davis
#9. The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
Frank McCourt
#11. I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
Woody Harrelson
#12. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Frank McCourt
#13. I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
Gary Numan
#14. Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#15. One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.
John Malkovich
#16. People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland ... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
Sue Grafton
#17. You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
Emma Donoghue
#20. Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way
and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#21. I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
Joss Whedon
#22. Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
#23. I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.
Anthony Jeselnik
#24. Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
Spike Jonze
#26. There is a saying, 'it's never too late to have a happy childhood'. I'd rephrase that. I'd say, it's never too late to stop a difficult childhood from turning us into unhappy adults.
Sally Brampton
#27. A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher
#28. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!
Lewis Carroll
#29. I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Maeve Binchy
#30. I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy
#31. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley Donen
#32. I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
Rik Mayall
#33. I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.
Carolina Herrera
#34. What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked.
Neil M. Gunn
#35. Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
Eugene Kennedy
#36. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#37. Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.
George Eliot
#38. I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
Maurice Sendak
#39. I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
Vicky McClure
#40. One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie
#41. Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed.
Carlos Baker
#42. think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.
Jean Webster
#43. Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#44. A happy childhood is hard to overcome.
Marty Rubin
#45. By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,
Lori Gottlieb
#46. I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.
Isabel Allende
#47. Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle
#48. I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#50. The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
Jean Rhys
#51. The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. I had a lovely childhood in Ireland, riding, hunting, and a great big, bare, draughty house with lots and lots of sun in it. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you, can they? It was afterwards - when I grew up - that things seemed always to go wrong.
Agatha Christie
#54. I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life - like one hundred percent blissful - is when we're little kids."
"Because there's less to worry about?"
"Because we're too stupid to know how worried we should be.
Brian K. Vaughan
#56. Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet
#57. I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
Natalie Babbitt
#58. I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
David Quammen
#59. I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
Johnny Vegas
#60. It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
Andy Serkis
#61. A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman
#62. Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.
Mark Twain
#63. I do to miss my childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in simple things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not away from things, or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
#64. If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Tracy Kidder
#65. I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
Martin Compston
#66. My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.
Julian Fellowes
#67. Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Nikki Giovanni
#68. Our culture has the expectation that the memories of a happy childhood will somehow ground you and prepare you for adult life. But what about the memories that cut, that wound, that won't heal?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#69. I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.
Dasha Zhukova
#70. The only walk of life where you can rightfully chill and run.Celebrate childhood!! Happy Childrens Day!!
Vidya
#71. And I know that your childhood wasn't all that great-that you felt a lot of pain,and that you are in a lot of pain right now. But maybe you have to go through all that so you'll learn just how important having a happy childhood can be, so you will provide one for our daughter.
Matthew Quick
#72. For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
Alfred Schnittke
#73. I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Jonathan Coe
#74. I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#75. I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'
Edward Carey
#76. My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#77. If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ...
Agatha Christie
#78. If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
Stefan Molyneux
#79. What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere
to a happy place.
Billy Corgan
#80. I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.
Erin Merryn
#81. Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
Chris Patten
#82. When you're young, you don't know that you're poor, you just know whether or not you're happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom did whatever she has to do to get by, and the lesson i learned from my childhood was that it's possible to pursue happiness, no matter where that pursuit may lead you.
Jared Leto
#83. No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
Stephen King
#84. It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher
#85. I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen
Marisa De Los Santos
#86. They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth.
Adam Baker
#87. 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
#88. What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
River Phoenix
#89. I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy
#90. If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? ... I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and ... toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.
George Orwell
#91. The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.
William Mountford
#92. A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#93. I'm so lucky to be having a happy childhood as an adult.
John Waters
#95. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.
Dorothy Rowe
#96. Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.
Dave Barry
#97. But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
Eva Figes
#98. I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.
Isabel Allende
#99. I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
