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  • A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

  • I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

  • A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

    Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers
  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions
  • I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.

    Mother   Brother   Dad  
  • I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  • 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.

    Keys   Childhood   Soul  
    Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

  • The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

    "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir". Book by Frank McCourt, 1996.
  • O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

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

  • My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

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

    "Rik Mayall: Forever young". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2000.
  • A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

    "Will Texas get Kinky?". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2005.
  • 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.

    "Big Briton" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2007.
  • I had a marvelously happy childhood.

  • Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

    Strong   Book   Childhood  
  • I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

    Real   Boys   House  
  • I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

    "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.
  • I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.

    Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.
  • It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

    Funny   Happiness   Happy  
  • 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.

    "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.
  • By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

  • I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

    Fun   Kids   Play  
  • Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

  • A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

    Childhood   Pledge   Ripe  
    Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
  • I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

    Childhood   Parent   Doe  
  • But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

  • One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

    Mean   Childhood   Knows  
    "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.
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