P. D. James Quotes

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

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.

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.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.