Childhood Quotes

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

My mom makes this amazing little snack that, to this day, I still think about. It's pita bread wrapped with melted butter, feta cheese, and cucumbers. That, to me, is still heaven. It's my childhood.

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.