Top 1200 Happy Childhood Quotes & Sayings

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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!

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.

We had an immensely happy childhood.

I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

I had a happy childhood.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

I had such a pure upbringing - my childhood was a really happy time.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

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

I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

I had a really happy childhood.

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

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

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom did whatever she has to do to get by, and the lesson i learned from my childhood was that it’s possible to pursue happiness, no matter where that pursuit may lead you.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

I had a very happy childhood.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

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

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

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.

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

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

Doing 'Days of Our Lives' was fun. I always am happy when working on the set. I think it reminds me of my childhood, which, in spite of not being 'normal' in any way, was a happy one.

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

When I talk about it, now people imagine I had an impoverished childhood, especially when I tell people we used to have to put coins in the side of the telly. But we were really happy. Mum never complained, there was always music playing in the house and we were always dancing around. It was a great childhood.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I look back to a happy childhood.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.