Childhood Quotes

To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box, a little rusty box.

The world's a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.

— I'll be mother.
— And there is a whole childhood in a nutshell.

"Last February," said Tom, and chuckled. "Held a matchbox up in a snowstorm, let one old snowflake fall in, shut it up, ran inside the house, stashed it in the icebox!"...
"Yes, sir," mused Tom, picking grapes, "I'm the only guy in all Illinois who's got a snowflake in summer. Precious as diamonds, by gosh. Tomorrow I'll open it. Doug, you can look, too...

You grew up with actors. You learned their craft and you learnt it well. But I grew up with soldiers. I learned how to die a long time ago.

— We were ten years old. Having dinner, the four of us. When the first shell hits, two floors below, it makes a hole in the floor... it's big. Our parents go in, and the whole building starts coming apart. I grab her, roll under the bed and the second shell hits. But, it doesn't go off. It just... sits there in the rubble, three feet from our faces. And on the side of the shell is painted one word...
— Stark.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

Wanda Maximoff / The Scarlet Witch

Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver

Memories

Death

— How do you know Arsey Darcy?
— Apparently, I used to run around naked in his paddling pool.
— I bet you did, you dirty bitch.
— What about you?
— Same.

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Daniel Cleaver

Bridget Jones

Acquaintance

Used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away
Used to dream of outer space, but now they're laughing at our face
Singing "wake up, you need to make money", yeah!

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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Aldous Huxley

Genius

Wish we could turn back time to the good old days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.

Childhood dreams are all too easily shattered. Even if you just leave them be, they will fall to pieces all by themselves.

I think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.

I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!

Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet, and shining, the color of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

I remember being really small... too small to see over the edge of a table.

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The Lovely Bones

Susie Salmon

— Gentlemen, this is your cousin. Polly's son, Michael.
— Pleased to meet you. John.
— I'm Arthur. You've already met me. I used to throw you out of the window, so John could catch you.
— I used to put you in a shoebox and kick you down Watery Lane.

Michael was taken from his mother when he was little. His first meeting with his brothers many years later.

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