Childhood Quotes

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.