Childhood Quotes · Page 40

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.

— Michael Portillo

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

— Umberto Eco

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

— Lata Mangeshkar

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...

— Eugene Ionesco

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

— Renzo Piano

There was a time (childhood) when…sleeping , playing and watching cartoon were my top priorities..!!

— Ashima Gaba

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids…

— Brian K. Vaughan

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a…

— George Lopez

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've…

— John Legend

Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as…

— Roland Orzabal

I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of…

— M. J. Ryan

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer.…

— Paul Feig

I had this childhood dream that I wanted to be a doctor, but I came from a neighborhood and an environment where…

— Leana S. Wen

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to…

— Lydia Sigourney

There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome.…

— Tony Attwood

I was unhappy and miserable during the first 28 years of my life...The things that I went through as a kid were…

— Tyler Perry

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and…

— Anne Lamott

To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other…

— Michel de Certeau

Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by…

— Eric Berne

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life…

— Alice Waters

“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were…

— Alan Taylor

I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books…

— Salman Rushdie

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

— Ishmael Beah

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

— Tom Noddy

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love…

— Drew McIntyre

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

— Corey Feldman

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

— Saqib Saleem

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

— John Betjeman

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

— Elie Wiesel

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

— Aleatha Romig

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

— Homer

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

— Giacomo Leopardi

I had a very wonderful growing up. I was surrounded by loving people.

— Annie Murphy

Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

— Corey Stoll

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

— Gary Payton