Childhood Quotes · Page 53

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

— Teyonah Parris

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux

Drowned in the sea of responsiblities, a man is compelled to forget everything but his childhood.Mak_786

— Mak_786

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

— Jennifer Egan

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if…

— Joyce Brothers

I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform…

— Ken Dodd

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic…

— Tom Harkin

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions…

— Anonymous

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were…

— Michael Redhill

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and…

— Lauren Bacall

I think that childhood is innocent, but not in the way we usually believe. I think it's a very sensual age, where…

— Celine Sciamma

Music and comedy, musical comedy, specifically, really helped me through my childhood. I felt out of place, I felt lots of adversity,…

— Randy Rainbow

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and…

— David Elkind

Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we…

— Marianne Williamson

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and…

— Carrie Brownstein

“When our consciousness has become a haven of illusions, our mind may have a hard time to fight the maze in our…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.…

— Bart Hopkins

This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and…

— Justin Torres

I've had a dead childhood because I was working so much that I wanted to take an early retirement.

— Rimi Sen

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

— Jimmy Barnes

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

— Tina Yothers

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

— Wendy Liebman

When you used to sleep with all of your stuffed animals as a child so none of them would be jealous!

— Anonymous

“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.”

— Bauvard

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

— Paul Vallas

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

— Renzo Piano

There was a time (childhood) when…sleeping , playing and watching cartoon were my top priorities..!!

— Ashima Gaba

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...

— Eugene Ionesco

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

— Lata Mangeshkar

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.

— Michael Portillo

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

— Umberto Eco

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen