Childhood Quotes · Page 66

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

— Robert Breault

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

Since childhood, I've never been a morning person. I need something exciting, out of my comfort zone, to get out of bed.

— Nani

Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.

— Bappi Lahiri

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

— Ernest Hemingway

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

— Bill Hicks

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

— Vivienne Westwood

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a…

— Helen McCrory

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood…

— Carson McCullers

If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for…

— Jamie Foxx

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just…

— Richard Simmons

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences,…

— Dido Armstrong

If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m…

— Christine Feehan

For me inspiration is pretty much life. The life around you and everything that happens, the people you meet, where you go,…

— Adriano Zumbo

“No" — I could never be another person’s father, fate, god, "No" — it should never happen to another child, what happened…

— Imre Kertész

“Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the…

— O.Z. Livaneli

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Part of being an artist is that you are achingly self-conscious about every aesthetic decision you make, and taste is at its…

— Grayson Perry

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most…

— Clara Shih

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of…

— Richard Dawkins

I would love to tell you I had the worst childhood you could ever imagine but believe it or not it was…

— Martin O'Neill

Whether your childhood roots lie in the city, the country or possibly more crucially in the neighbourhood suburbs of this wide brown…

— Melissa Leong

There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there…

— Cesar Chavez

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It will never be all that I want it to be… But it is always twice what I expected.”

— James Qualls

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

— Jonathan Ames

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

— Carrie Brownstein

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

— Karen White

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

— Robert Downey Jr

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American…

— Rachel Dolezal

“One day he would finish the job of dying he'd begun in childhood/”

— Gregory Maguire

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

— Mason Cooley

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

— Michael Gruber

Pouring soda into the cap when you were younger and acting like you were taking shots.

— Anonymous

The intensity with which a person resists discussing their childhood is first evidence of how painful it was.

— Anonymous

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

— Bretman Rock

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

— Robert Webb

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

— Bill Watterson