Childhood Quotes

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

My childhood was appalling.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health.

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

My childhood was extreme.

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.

Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.

I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

Play is the highest form of research.

Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

The blessedness of being little!!!

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?

The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.