Childhood Quotes
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.
Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write
My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head
We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.
There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
