Childhood Quotes

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

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.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I had a happy childhood.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

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

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

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

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

I had an amazing childhood.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.