Childhood Quotes · Page 2

“Old age is the new childhood.”

— Hanif Kureishi

I do have a regular childhood.

— Paris Jackson

I was a really weird child.

— Simon Amstell

“Art is childhood.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Il y a tant de vieux arbres!”

— José Mauro de Vasconcelos

We carry our childhood with us.

— Anonymous

I was a sensitive kid.

— Mabel

I definitely had a wild phase.

— David Walton

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

— Robert Breault

I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it.

— Gillian Flynn

I was interested in films since my childhood.

— Johnny Lever

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

— Hanif Kureishi

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

— Sandra Cisneros

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

— Demi Lovato

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

— Stephen Furst

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

— Gloria Estefan

Anyone who refuses the love of a child deserves nothing but evil as terrible as the heart you have blackened.

— Anonymous

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

— Javier Zanetti

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

— Brad Goreski

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

— Evan Esar

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

— Emily Atack

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

— Roald Dahl

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes…

— Cecily Strong

My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin'…

— Henry Louis Gates

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie.…

— Brittany Curran

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop…

— Eric Stonestreet

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and…

— Paul McCartney

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want…

— Melanie Laurent

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.…

— Graham Greene

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my…

— Howard Stern

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our…

— George Eliot

A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just…

— Anonymous

“People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through…

— Sylvia Kristel

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I…

— Adam Beach

“The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were…

— Georgess McHargue

When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read…

— Ronald D. Moore

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.'…

— Ann Hood

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since…

— Michel de Montaigne