Childhood Quotes

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

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.]

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

The old are in a second childhood.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.