Childhood Quotes · Page 41

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

— Paul Auster

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

— Ice Cube

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

— Anonymous

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good…

— Ingrid Pitt

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like…

— Matt Dillon

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I…

— Charles Forsman

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help…

— Swami Vivekananda

“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer…

— John Clare

I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for…

— Xavier Woods

Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my…

— Hal Porter

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome…

— Lenora Crichlow

“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the…

— Rebecca Solnit

I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.…

— Seanan McGuire

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start…

— C. Sommerville

I was always fascinated by speed... My father was always an enthusiast and once I found a passion in racing, I had…

— Christian Horner

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only…

— Paul Bowles

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from…

— George Carlin

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when…

— James Hillman

The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

— Thomas Gray

“The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

— Flannery O'Connor

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

— Teyonah Parris

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

— George Sand

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”

— Italo Calvino

I've had a dead childhood because I was working so much that I wanted to take an early retirement.

— Rimi Sen

Drowned in the sea of responsiblities, a man is compelled to forget everything but his childhood.Mak_786

— Mak_786

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

— Jennifer Egan

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

— Paul Vallas