Childhood Quotes

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.

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

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

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

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

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

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

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.

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

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

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

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.