Small Childhood Quotes

#1. The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

Ice Cube

#2. In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

Camille Henrot

#3. The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Aristotle.

#4. Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

A.S. Neill

#5. In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us
not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

John Irving

#6. I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

Patty Duke

#7. Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

Kay Boyle

#8. The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

Charles Dickens

#9. There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

Martin Schuster

#10. My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Rita Dove

#11. Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

Pico Iyer

#12. I don't miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art ... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

Betsy Hearne

#14. I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

Jesse McCartney

#15. I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#16. It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Fran Drescher

#17. I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

George Carlin

#18. Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

Pierce Brosnan

#19. The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

Maxwell Grantly

#20. Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

Garrison Keillor

#21. Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.

Magda Gerber

#22. It's the kind of small town where most people spend their entire lives in the culture of their childhood.

Erin Meyer

#23. Some people find the cravenness to lose entire years of their childhood. They tuck things into their subconscious so that it only eats them away a little at a time, in small, painless bites.

Blake Crouch

#24. My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

Dan Groat

#25. 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

#26. Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

Lorna Crozier

#27. I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.

Sarah Winman

#28. I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

#29. Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Harry Truman

#30. Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Haruki Murakami

#31. I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

Jack Nicholson

#32. My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Frederick Reines

#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 cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Roald Dahl

#35. The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

Richard Rhodes

#36. How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.

Joyce Rachelle

#37. At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

Elizabeth Bowen

#38. My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

Rachel Holmes

#39. Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

Stefan Zweig

#40. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

Ryu Murakami

#41. On more than one occasion I heard how life apparently advances, moves on, sets sail or, at worst, apparently crawls slowly forward. My life, on the other hand, simply exploded like a firecracker in the hand of God, a small flare in his mighty firmament of bombardment.

Hassan Blasim

#42. There is a small difference between being sad and grieving about something. When we want something and we don't get it, we get upset or sad. But if this continues and keeps on repeating, our sadness accumulates in our hearts and turns into a grief

Tushar Upreti

#43. The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

Mary Gaitskill

#44. So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books.

Luisa Weiss

#45. Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.

Lauren Groff