Childhood Quotes

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food.

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.