Childhood End Quotes

I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids around, and I'm angry at them for going out and becoming independent. I want to tuck them in and drive them to school in the morning, but they just won't let me do that anymore.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.

You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

I started working when I was 9 or 10.

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.