Childhood Quotes

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

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.

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

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.