Childhood Quotes

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

I felt caged by my childhood.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

Life is the childhood of immortality.

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.