Top 51 Childhood Story Quotes
#1. To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.
Robert Manne
#2. I'm remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I'd remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.
Krista Ritchie
#3. In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#4. The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale ...
Vera Nazarian
#5. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.
Joe Hill
#6. My childhood home was a large, light-blue, two-story house with a big front yard to play in.
Connor Franta
#7. Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
Katharine Anthony
#8. I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
Steve Martin
#9. A childish story take, and with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined in Memory's mystic band ... thus grew the world of Wonderland.
A.G. Howard
#10. Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.
Raffaella Barker
#11. Grandpa had told him some of the same stories when he was a kid, and they weren't lies, exactly, but exaggerated versions of the truth - because the story of Grandpa Portman's childhood wasn't a fairy tale at all. It was a horror story.
Ransom Riggs
#12. I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
Halldor Laxness
#13. I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me, and he took action. I was one of the fortunate ones
I had a childhood.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#14. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day.
Seanan McGuire
#15. My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
Rodney Dangerfield
#16. Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Paul Auster
#17. 'Bless Me, Ultima' is quite autobiographical in the sense that I was writing a story about my childhood, my hometown where I grew up, Santa Rosa, New Mexico, on Old Highway 66 and the Pecos River. So a great deal of that environment, landscape, people, got thrown in the novel.
Rudolfo Anaya
#18. Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
Tony Dungy
#19. It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. Lewis
#20. I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
Angela Merkel
#22. History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
#23. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!
Mehek Bassi
#24. I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.
Gilbert Hernandez
#25. No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?
Krista Ritchie
#26. It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.
Tim Winton
#27. So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful.
Niki Krauss
#28. Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.
Krista Ritchie
#29. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#30. What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
Andrew Lo
#31. Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
Ivan Doig
#32. The illustrations in the book are beautiful. The story is a great
page-turner and is very clear and easy to read. The children really enjoy answering the questions."-Kay Harling (Director Emerald Preschool & Community Kindergarten, B.Ed Early Childhood.)
Allison Jenkinson
#33. My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley Donen
#34. I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.
Lee Unkrich
#35. ...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#36. Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentile hand
Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined
In memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far off land.
Lewis Carroll
#37. Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
Lenora Crichlow
#38. During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.
Monica Crowley
#39. I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
James A. Baldwin
#40. In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
Greg McVicker
#41. When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
Tushar Upreti
#42. When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#43. Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?
Andrew Bridge
#44. I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.
Will Hobbs
#45. Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I never just decided to become a writer. I was born to be a writer. I knew it from childhood.
Sai Marie Johnson
#46. When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
#47. Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.
DaShanne Stokes
#48. My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
Misty Copeland
#49. I'll always be yours.No distance or time apart will change that,Lily.
Krista Ritchie
#50. I love you," he says again, "and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.
Krista Ritchie
#51. Wait for me." The words come out choked and pained. "I need you to wait for me.
Krista Ritchie
