Childhood Quotes

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.

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

A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

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.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

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

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

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.

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

Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Children are our greatest untapped resource.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I've never outgrown my childhood.