Childhood Quotes

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.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from childhood.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.