170 Childhood Memories Quotes

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Famous Childhood Memories Quotes

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. - David Leavitt

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. — David Leavitt

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Davis Kasl

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. — River Phoenix

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. — Dana Spiotta

My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of. — Akram Khan

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way. — Peter Jurasik

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY — Michael K. Williams

Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside. — Mary Berry

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

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. — Gaston Bachelard

Short Childhood Memories Quotes

  • Reminisce about the little episodes that we shared together — Shing02
  • If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever. — Ice Cube
  • Good memories are our second chance at happiness. — Queen Elizabeth II
  • Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. — Steven Wright
  • Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. — Andy Goldsworthy
  • One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie
  • When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
  • In my hometown memories are fresh. — Adele
  • The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card
  • There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Deepak Chopra

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Childhood memories quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Old Memories Quotes

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque

It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face. — Wilson Rawls

Childhood memories quote Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops. — Rick Rubin

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again. — Ricky Nelson

It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. — Matthew Walker

Childhood memories quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Favourite stadium? I have good memories of my CL debut at Old Trafford, spectacular atmosphere. The Theatre of Dreams, as they say. — Xavi

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. — Richard Kadrey

My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing. — Jake Paul

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers. — Rachel Vincent

Favorite Memories Quotes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. — Louis Bacon

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. — Ahmet Zappa

Childhood memories quote The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger. — Eli Manning

Some of my favorite memories happened in the Boy Meets World classroom. — Danielle Fishel

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke

I think honestly when I was younger I use to love going to carnivals in Long Island. I use to love carnival season; I would drive to every town going to carnivals. That was definitely a favorite memory. — Melanie Martinez

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. — Rumer Godden

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something. — Martin Lawrence

My favorite thing about partying together is sharing the memories. — Andrew W.K.

School Memories Quotes

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it. — Akira Toriyama

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother. — Grace Kelly

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. — Roald Dahl

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions. — Anita Shreve

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. — Yvonne Strahovski

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn. — Delmore Schwartz

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. — Ban Ki-moon

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. — Jim Fowler

Joys Of Childhood Quotes

Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles. — Eliphas Levi

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. — Astrid Lindgren

To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. — Michel De Certeau

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

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion. — Minnie Pearl

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood. — Robert M. Price

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives. — Paulo Coelho

At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood. — Jeff Cooper

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun. — Graeme Base

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. — Joyce Maynard

Magic Of Childhood Quotes

Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder. — Doug Henning

Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart. — Julie Andrews

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. — Valorie Curry

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood. — Tyra Banks

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. — Alberto Manguel

The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension. — Seth

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell. — Terry Pratchett

Fond Memories Quotes

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn. — Brendon Urie

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday - Rob Jackson

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday — Rob Jackson

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. — Haruki Murakami

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Sayings

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. — Homaro Cantu

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. — Laurel Clark

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... — Walt Disney

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. — Jonathan Carroll

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard. — P. K. Subban

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys. — Michael Keaton

Childhood Quotes

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. — Maria Montessori

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal

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

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. — Chester Bennington

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes

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

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson

Family Memories Quotes

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past. — William Faulkner

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there? — Pam Muñoz Ryan

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. — Sue Monk Kidd

In loving memory from the Family. - Bugsy Siegel

In loving memory from the Family. — Bugsy Siegel

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together – and you had to finish everything as well. — Mary Berry

However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table. — Gordon Ramsay

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. — Chris Brown

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. — Zach Wamp

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. — Ferdinand De Saussure

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories. — Wes Fesler

Happy Childhood Quotes

If you go back to childhood, you observe that if a child’s basic needs are met their default state is happy – they don’t need an iPhone, they can play with their toes and be happy. — Mo Gawdat

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

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

I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of. — Kylian Mbappe

Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire. — Carolyn Hart

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. — Jonathan Coe

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem. — Thomas Keating

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. — Rick Steves

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard

Childhood Dreams Quotes

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams. — Sergio Leone

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you. — Randy Pausch

You don’t have yet wings and already want to fly. — Mexican Proverbs

Don’t complain; just work harder. — Randy Pausch

Most kids probably dream of becoming an astronaut. I was just the one that never grew out of it. — Christina Koch

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch

A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once. — Alexi Pappas

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. — Raquel Welch

We remain young to the degree that our ambitions are greater than our memories. — Dan Sullivan

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll

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More Childhood Memories Quotes

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side. — Akira Toriyama

Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life. — Jake Paul

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else. — Vitalik Buterin

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. — Vitalik Buterin

I may not be ‘the prettiest’ or have ‘big boobies,’ but I want people to remember me as the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

I want to be remembered for just being myself and doing what I want to do. — KSI

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

You can just never forget where you came from. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. — Paula Cole

Being home for the holidays is one of my happiest memories. — Lisa Manoban

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. — Howard Pyle

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.' — Akira Toriyama

The way you started loving her is the way she should always be loved. — Edward Barber

To go out at Wembley and score is what you dream about as a kid. — Harry Kane

You’re not alone in anything that you’ve done. — Markiplier

Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever. — R.K. Narayan

Healing is not fixing. It is just the process of remembering that everything was always okay. — Brianna Wiest

I don’t have speed dial, but if I had one, it would probably be my mum. — Sadie Sink

I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard

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

I was a dreamer when I was younger. — Kylian Mbappe

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

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

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. — Jodi Picoult

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

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

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change. — Monty Roberts

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' — Albert Schweitzer

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies. — Herbert Marcuse

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times. — Kylian Mbappe

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