Childhood Quotes · Page 45

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

— S. E. Hinton

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

— Lori Gottlieb

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

— Andrew Wiles

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

— Richard Zera

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

— Maria Montessori

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits,…

— Riane Eisler

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying…

— Troye Sivan

It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has…

— Sophie Dahl

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had…

— Hermann Hesse

People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I…

— Sean Waltman

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my…

— Anthony Bourdain

“Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of…

— Peter Taylor

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene…

— Paula Fox

“My mom loved me no matter what I did. [...] When I really screwed up, she'd tell me that she loved me…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was…

— Charles Dickens

As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over… So one can be grown up at seven. Then,…

— Eugene Ionesco

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be…

— Ian Fleming

I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry…

— Karen Abbott

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which…

— Sigmund Freud

I was always different in that I liked being by myself. Even in kindergarten, when we were told to line up and…

— Renee Zellweger

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I…

— Anonymous

“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.”

— Ted Dekker

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very…

— Sam Jaeger

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

— Sushmita Sen

“Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

— Julie Klausner

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

— Sofia Carson

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

— Orson Scott Card

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. . .

— Anonymous

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

— Robert Breault

I want my childhood back ... want all precious days of my life ... I want my girlfriend when I am in 2nd grade

— Dheeraj Meena

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present…

— Sandra Bullock

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

“We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

— Sarah Waters

When I was young, and it was raining, I used to watch two drops of water roll down the window and pretend…

— Brookelle Willcox