Childhood Quotes · Page 38

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

— El-P

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

— Kurt Vile

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

— Stephen King

I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.

— Alexander Gilkes

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room…

— Jessie J

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was…

— Bryce Harper

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily…

— Aisha Tyler

I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But…

— Nathan Englander

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please…

— Roald Dahl

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood.…

— Mary Oliver

“I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare…

— Maurice Sendak

What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has…

— Judy Delton

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was…

— Chris Crutcher

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school…

— Ted Naifeh

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive…

— Rachel McAdams

“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.] CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back? CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin. CALVIN:…

— Bill Watterson

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon,"…

— George R.R. Martin

I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people…

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was little, I used to sing in the shower. Now? I make life decisions in there.

— Obviously Me :p

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

— Laura Schlessinger

We have ALL waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because theyre taking too long to come out...

— Anonymous

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

— Lee Ranaldo

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

— John Edward Christopher Hill

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

— Alex Hirsch

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

— Sarah Hyland

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

— Ross Duffer

When I was kid, werewolves and vampires were scary. Now everyone wants to date them.

— Anonymous

Having spent my childhood and teenage in London, it gave me a western orientation of mind.

— Simi Garewal

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

— Tom Vilsack

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

— David Gest

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

— Louise Hay