Childhood Quotes · Page 49

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

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

— Giacomo Leopardi

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

— Gaston Bachelard

Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up...what the hell were we thinking?

— Keren Zhims

I have been following the Dakar since childhood. I always wanted to do it.

— Andre Villas-Boas

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

— Alex Hirsch

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

— Devon Werkheiser

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years…

— Wilma Rudolph

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the…

— Russell Baker

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

While my father has a music group of his own, my mother sings devotional songs. So, right from childhood I would sit…

— Ankit Tiwari

I've had a lifelong love affair with football. I was fortunate to be able to live out my childhood dreams. To play…

— Mark Schlereth

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of…

— Robert E. Lee

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that…

— James Heckman

I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me…

— Jack Antonoff

“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with…

— L.M. Montgomery

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me…

— Russell Westbrook

“He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said…

— Hilary Mantel

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It…

— Faith Evans

I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a…

— Elizabeth Keckley

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,…

— Marie Winn

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a…

— Umberto Eco

I've said publicly, and it's true, I've had a lot of wonderful things come my way. But personally, the greatest thing I…

— Archie Manning

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

— S. E. Hinton

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

— Judit Polgar

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

— Ted Dekker

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

— Yukio Mishima

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

— Richard Zera

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

— Maria Montessori

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

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

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

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Carrie Brownstein

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

— Joseph Murray

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

— Karen White

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

— Robert Downey Jr

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