Childhood Quotes

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.

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

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

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

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

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.

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

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

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.

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

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

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

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.

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

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

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

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

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

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

I didn't have a childhood.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.

For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.