Childhood Quotes

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.