Childhood Quotes

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.

I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments I had to becoming a successful writer is I had a very happy childhood.

Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

Old age is but a second childhood.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy seeing the image in 3D, there's a childhood fun about being able to see those dimensions.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.