Childhood Quotes · Page 44

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

— Jonathan Ames

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American…

— Rachel Dolezal

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

— Robert Downey Jr

“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most”

— Savannah Brown

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

— Bretman Rock

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

— Robert Webb

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

— Bill Watterson

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance…

— Anonymous

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost…

— Michael Jackson

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from…

— Heraclitus of Ephesus

I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I…

— Celine Sciamma

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in…

— John Irving

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in…

— Donnie Yen

My mom wore the pants in the family, for sure. I always say, that I spent my childhood trying to get the…

— Jill Sobule

“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous…

— Terri Windling

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type…

— Charles Darwin

“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When we were kids , we get scared of Monsters even we never saw them ,but we had used our childish fertile…

— Anonymous

“Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't…

— Gregory Maguire

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a…

— Michael Ian Black

Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated.…

— Lisa Fugard

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think…

— Anonymous

The intensity with which a person resists discussing their childhood is first evidence of how painful it was.

— Anonymous

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

— Michael Gruber

Pouring soda into the cap when you were younger and acting like you were taking shots.

— Anonymous

“One day he would finish the job of dying he'd begun in childhood/”

— Gregory Maguire

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

— Mason Cooley

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

— Mindy Kaling

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

— Philip Roth

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”

— C.J. Heck

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still…

— Jonathan Majors

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home…

— Devon Werkheiser

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

— Alex Hirsch

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best…

— Judit Polgar