Childhood Quotes · Page 57

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

— Paul McCartney

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

— Robert Breault

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit…

— Francis Quarles

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

— Andrew Vachss

For me to join 'Fast and Furious' was like a childhood dream come true, and and I felt it became a great…

— Kristofer Hivju

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick…

— Katie Dippold

I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best…

— Oscar Hijuelos

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

— Ashley Roberts

I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day,…

— Zendaya

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made…

— Joel Fuhrman

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more…

— Beatrix Potter

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped…

— Pam Grier

Comedy comes from childhood only. The humour genes you are born with remain with you. I was always making mischief and making…

— Johnny Lever

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books…

— Alice Hoffman

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

— Frank McCourt

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist…

— Dalai Lama

In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me…

— Ed O'Neill

We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood…

— Laura Ramirez

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it…

— Stephen King

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever…

— Laura Moser

She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt…

— Holly Black

When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel…

— Joyce Meyer

I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and…

— Williston Fish

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You…

— Adriana Trigiani

You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

— Terry Pratchett

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

— Randy Pausch

Childhood was great - anything could be bruised, broken or torn apart and it healed in a moment

— Melchor Lim

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

— Jodi Kantor

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

— Rene Descartes

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

— John Irving

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

— Hortense Calisher

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

— Bayard Taylor

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

— Blaise Pascal

I have been dancing since childhood and it is very close to my heart.

— Esha Deol

“ There is no stronger bond than the one that gets you through childhood. ”

— Wendy Wunder

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

— Olivia Wilde

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

— Jimmy Fallon

“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?”

— Ruth Ozeki

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

— Winston Churchill