Childhood Quotes · Page 59

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

— Louise Glück

“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.”

— Aliki

In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.

— Koena Mitra

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in…

— Josh Peck

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

— John Irving

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

— Julian Cope

When I was little I would be so entertained on cartoons and now I sleep to them.

— Anonymous

“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing…

— Karen Swallow Prior

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers…

— Michelle Dockery

That's basically what my parents taught me throughout my childhood, being intense and consistent. In my opinion, those are the hardest things…

— Evan Fournier

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We…

— Carol Burnett

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there…

— Nancy Marchand

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my…

— Moshe Kasher

I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it's also the…

— Derrick Lewis

Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the…

— Catherine Camus

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of…

— Kathryn Hughes

Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar.…

— Fanny Fern

It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in…

— Terri E Apter

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and…

— Heidi Julavits

“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a…

— Gregory Benford

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

— Jeremy Denk

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

— Narendra Modi

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

— Carol O'Connell

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

— Peter Dinklage

From childhood I have played for India. I have represented India. I have always been a proud Indian.

— Jwala Gutta

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

— Wil Wheaton

If you never jumped from couch to couch as kid to avoid the lava, then you missed out on childhood.

— Anonymous

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

— Richard Simmons

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

— Tina Yothers

“Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“For him, it appeared he could freeze the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his hands like water.”

— J.U. Scribe

The Flyers winning back to back Stanley Cups, all of those things were a part of my childhood.

— Sean Payton

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.”

— Angelika Regossi

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous