Childhood Quotes · Page 43

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

— Carl Lewis

“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

— Samuel Woodworth

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

— Rian Johnson

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los…

— Kathy Hilton

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

— Kailash Satyarthi

“One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we…

— Fred Rogers

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift…

— Christian Dior

I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a…

— Hale Appleman

To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm…

— Tim Hudson

I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There…

— Ezra Miller

“A child with minimal video and TV exposure... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated…

— Diane Medved

Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our…

— Nhat Hanh

It always felt like I had a weight on my chest for like, half my life. Cause I just carried all this…

— Eddie Kingston

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I…

— Bill Crow

A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable,…

— Russell Crowe

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why…

— Clint Eastwood

Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite…

— Toby Jones

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate…

— Roger Ross Williams

“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.…

— Clive Barker

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

— Andrew Stanton

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

— Lindsey Vonn

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

— Deborah Davis

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

— Paris Hilton

Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.

— Bappi Lahiri

Since childhood, I've never been a morning person. I need something exciting, out of my comfort zone, to get out of bed.

— Nani

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

— Robert Breault

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

— Ernest Hemingway

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

— Bill Hicks

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It will never be all that I want it to be… But it is always twice what I expected.”

— James Qualls

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

— Vivienne Westwood

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

— Carrie Brownstein

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

— Karen White