Childhood Quotes

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

My childhood best friend is an anesthesiologist. It's the least amount of human interaction for a doctor. I don't think you can get that burned out on it.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

I believe every childhood should be magical.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

My opinion is borne out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs. That marriage is between one man and one woman.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

I'd had a rough childhood.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I had a very happy childhood.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.