Top 35 Happy Childhood Quotes

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 lets you get on with it.

I had a happy childhood.

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.

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

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn’t have. But we had a very happy childhood – pretty much ideal, in fact.

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

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

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

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.

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

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn’t wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn’t thin.

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best friends.

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

I look back to a happy childhood.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

My family life reads a bit like ‘Little House on the Prairie.’ I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

I had a really happy childhood.

I had a happy childhood.

I feel really lucky because I discovered acting when I was really young, I was like nine and I think I had a really happy childhood and youth. I was doing what I wanted.

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

I’m incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I’m one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

I’m the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

I didn’t have a happy childhood.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

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.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don’t remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

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

I don’t remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

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

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly – but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

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.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in ‘Heap House.’