Childhood Quotes · Page 48

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

— Karel Appel

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.”

— Lorrie Moore

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

— Joan Rivers

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

— Gary Webb

“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.”

— Gary Shteyngart

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Richard Dawkins

I was kind of, I would say, even obsessed with music. I wanted to start learning piano when I was six years…

— Tarja Turunen

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play…

— Fred Rogers

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from…

— Peggy Orenstein

I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents…

— Cassie Ventura

My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.…

— Luca Parmitano

“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's…

— Louisa May Alcott

...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest…

— Sheryl Sandberg

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half…

— Jessica St. Clair

“She'd loved birds long before her physical limitations kept her grounded. She'd found a birding diary of her grandmother's in a trunk…

— Tracy Guzeman

That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or…

— Jenny Lawson

Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live…

— Aaron Kampman

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.…

— Tom Stoppard

Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to…

— James Dobson

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown…

— Dorothy Allison

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the…

— George Eliot

“I don’t know why I was upset about not being an adult. It was right around the corner. Becoming a child again…

— Heather O'Neill

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

— Sofia Carson

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

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

— Sam Jaeger

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

— Sophie Swetchine

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Orson Scott Card

“Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.”

— Beverly Cleary

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on…

— Hilary Hahn

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

— Andrew Wiles

Since my childhood, I have seen 'Nagina,' 'Chalbaaz' and 'Mr. India' so many times.

— Rupali Ganguly

“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