Childhood Quotes · Page 46

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

— Frank Herbert

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

— Christina Ricci

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

— William Faulkner

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.…

— George Saunders

My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It…

— Traci Lords

I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I was a 'Star Wars' fanatic growing up. I guess I still am. Pretty much for everybody who grew up in the…

— Colin O'Donoghue

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts…

— Lewis Thomas

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of…

— John Stamos

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded…

— Brian O'Driscoll

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain…

— Corey Taylor

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live…

— Alice Miller

It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie…

— J. G. Ballard

“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no…

— Judith Kinghorn

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person…

— Alan Bennett

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James…

— Colm Toibin

~¥~ Childhood is the only period where we don't know this world, where we are unaware of what is happening around us.à…

— Nadhira

“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We…

— Maurice Sendak

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

— Gabriela Mistral

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

— Ted Naifeh

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— C.M. Stunich

I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.

— Rachel Keller

In childhood days I used to be free of sorrow and worry today that my child is free

— Mak_786

When I was a kid, I thought if you dig far enough, you'd find china...

— Anonymous

“Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.”

— Julian Barnes

In fact, in childhood, I was scared to watch a film in a dark theatre.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

— Shannon Miller

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

— Tom Hooper

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

— Louie Anderson

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

— Mark Haddon

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

— Shiri Appleby

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of…

— Sigmund Freud

I have always wanted to be an actor. I like to enjoy every single day of my life, because I am living…

— Sanya Malhotra