Childhood Quotes

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

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

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

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

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be "taught" - is disturbing.

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.