Childhood Quotes · Page 36

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

— Gary Oldman

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

— Robert Fulghum

We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.

— Geeta Phogat

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

— Michael Giacchino

When I was a kid, I used to think the moon followed our car everywhere.

— Anonymous

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

— Sigmund Freud

“She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a…

— Suzanne Jenkins

To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal…

— Edin Dzeko

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced…

— Anonymous

An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that…

— Bayard Taylor

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current…

— Nyjah Huston

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments…

— Jennifer Lee

“It’s my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine,…

— Mohsin Hamid

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of…

— Ian McEwan

“A game like sardines is scary, not so much for the hider but for the seekers. It's scary because you lose your…

— Suzanne Palmieri

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my…

— Paul Reubens

“Her own dolls were either babies or storybook characters like Cinderella and Snow White who though past childhood were somehow not yet…

— Josephine Humphreys

I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could…

— Craig Seymour

“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a…

— Diego Rivera

perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered…

— Dervla Murphy

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

— Milan Kundera

I spent 90 percent of my childhood playing SNES and N64, and my favorite games were the ones packed with secrets.

— Alex Hirsch

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

— Chrissy Metz

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

— Robert Breault

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

— Peter Steinhart

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

— Michael Grant

Working with Suriya is like a dream-come-true moment for me. I've been following Suriya's films right from my childhood.

— Sai Pallavi

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

— Cesare Beccaria

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Beth Behrs

I think mostly music just felt good because my parents gave me a real good childhood so I was rarely sad.

— Jason Becker

I miss the days when you could just push someone into a pool without worrying about their cell phone.

— Anonymous

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

— Amitava Kumar

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can…

— Mike Lookinland

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

— Frank Gehry