I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!'... →
Aimee Bender
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
Annie Besant
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
John Betjeman
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
Vinoba Bhave
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Maeve Binchy
My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow
I had a happy childhood.
Alastair Campbell
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
Sara Canning
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life... →
Peter Capaldi