The Best Happy Childhood Quotes

Let’s face it. Growing up was hard. And for some of us, it’s still excruciating difficult when life throws us curveballs. When things goes wrong, I am still actively trying to find an adult to… adult! So let’s take a moment to appreciate how much of an idiot we all were when we would once rebel against naps and going to bed early and reminisce about fond old school memories.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Dorothy Richardson

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

Tom Stoppard

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Rick Steves

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Piers Anthony

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 realise that darkness rings the campfire.

Carolyn Hart

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

Jonathan Coe

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

David Lynch

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy