Childhood Quotes · Page 58

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Ice Cube

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

— Lee Mack

“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

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

'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all…

— Dylan Minnette

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it's very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I’d been raised to be practical and keep my emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few…

— Richelle Mead

“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the…

— Ray Bradbury

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the…

— Thomas Keneally

Lots of people can identify with a fear of abandonment because of childhood stuff. They say you're either afraid of abandonment or…

— Aimee Lou Wood

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he…

— Flip Wilson

I wouldn't say I had a hard childhood because my mom always made sure we was Gucci, you know what I mean.…

— Young M.A

When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it,…

— Ray Park

“And I never wanted Tegan to not get what I was gonna get. It’s something that goes very, very much back to…

— Sara Quin

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt…

— Patti Smith

“I had been here, hadn’t I, a long time ago? I was sure I had. Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured…

— Neil Gaiman

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through…

— Robert Benchley

It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"…

— Melissa Febos

A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us…

— Mary E. DeMuth

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

— Kevin Nealon

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

No matter how old I get, I think mooning people will always be hilarious.

— Anonymous

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

— Carl Lewis

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

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

— Kailash Satyarthi

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

— Kathy Hilton

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

— Rian Johnson

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

— Jeff VanderMeer