Childhood Quotes

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

The child is father of the man.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Your children get only one childhood.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential