Childhood Quotes · Page 5

My childhood was extreme.

— Tori Amos

I never grew up.

— Tracey Emin

I was a wild teenager.

— Ncuti Gatwa

Genius is childhood recaptured.

— Jean Baudrillard

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

I never had a true childhood.

— Bethenny Frankel

I grew up in a happy household.

— Kristen Stewart

I was miserable as a kid.

— Maurice Sendak

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

— Matt Cassel

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

— Richey Edwards

“Childhood is the best period of life...”

— Ray

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

— Kelly Ripa

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

— Joseph Fiennes

“pray to the God of my childhood that”

— Melanie Benjamin

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Ajax were a childhood love of mine.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I spent a lot of my childhood sat on a wall thinking, waiting for my mum to pick me up.

— Russell Howard

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

— Dana Spiotta

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

— Susie Bright

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

— Ben Okri

“...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...”

— John Geddes

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

— Simon Hoggart

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of…

— Thomas Traherne

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can…

— Michael Sandel

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids,…

— Venus Williams

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would…

— Tove Ditlevsen

A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all…

— Michael Moschen

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of…

— David Steinberg

“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to…

— Cricket Rohman

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and…

— Anonymous

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

“Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what…

— Emil Cioran

Remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? When protection meant a helmet? When the worst thing you could get from…

— Anonymous

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new…

— Eugene Ionesco

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson