Childhood Quotes

I had a great childhood.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

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.

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.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

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

Your children get only one childhood.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.