Childhood Quotes

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.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

As I talked to our team, we are going to believe that Eric is going to walk onto that field again.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.