Childhood Quotes · Page 52

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

— Lou Ferrigno

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

— Juliette Lewis

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

— Samuel Woodworth

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

— Rian Johnson

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

— Kailash Satyarthi

My childhood was basically divided between fishing and roaming the woods and hiding out in my bedroom. Maybe things would've turned out…

— Jonathan Miles

I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my…

— Laura Dern

People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind…

— Mark Kurlansky

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense…

— Daniel Goleman

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once…

— Giorgio de Chirico

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost…

— John Ruskin

I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a…

— Allan Bloom

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I…

— Jeff Kinney

For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that…

— Kate Winslet

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature,…

— Damaris Phillips

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in…

— James W. Pennebaker

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society…

— Allan Bloom

When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results…

— James Redford

“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself…

— David Bohm

After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and…

— Anonymous

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and…

— Rene Descartes

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los…

— Kathy Hilton

“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

— Thomas Gray

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

— Flannery O'Connor

“The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

— Anonymous

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good…

— Ingrid Pitt

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

— Paul Auster

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

— Ice Cube

“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”

— Italo Calvino

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

— George Sand

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,

— Jhumpa Lahiri