Childhood Quotes

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

Ever since (childhood), I realized that one of the coolest things in the game is scoring touchdowns. And I think mentally that still drives me.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.