Childhood Quotes · Page 37

“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

— James Gunn

I love the idea of my daughter looking back at her childhood and growing up with a dog.

— Erika Christensen

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

— Nadya Suleman

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

— David Lynch

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone, I need to use the internet.'

— Anonymous

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

“Every person will become three time child in their life. One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third…

— Savan Solanki

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself…

— David Goggins

I know I'll regret growing up too fast and I shouldn't wish away my childhood away, but I want to experience all…

— Anonymous

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children…

— Annie Besant

I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New…

— Lauren Bacall

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I…

— Maeve Binchy

Our state will show the nation how we can end childhood poverty through a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit…

— Wes Moore

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this…

— Dermot Mulroney

I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has…

— Alexandra Adornetto

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last…

— Meg Wolitzer

The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of…

— Alice Miller

“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to…

— Gillian Flynn

I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,…

— David Oshinsky

“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Summer on the farm was glorious. Peter spent as much time out of doors as possible, and he had many playmates, since…

— Christopher Daniel Mechling

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad…

— Marisol Nichols

I miss my childhood, no homework, no wake up early, no exam, no stress, no problems in life

— Patience

Some things that happen to you in childhood you never forget. You don't forget how people treated you or your parents.

— Cedella Marley

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

— Rachel Cusk

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

— Peter Diamandis

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read…

— Priyadarshan

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

— Seth MacFarlane

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

— Amanda Harlech

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge.

— Anonymous

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

— Bernard Tomic

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

10-year-old girls crying because they broke up with their boyfriends. When I was 10 I cried when I missed the morning cartoons.

— Anonymous