Childhood Quotes
You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.
Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.