Childhood Quotes

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.