Childhood Quotes · Page 68

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

— Sushmita Sen

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

— Julie Klausner

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very…

— Sam Jaeger

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

I want my childhood back ... want all precious days of my life ... I want my girlfriend when I am in 2nd grade

— Dheeraj Meena

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

— Robert Breault

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present…

— Sandra Bullock

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

— Orson Scott Card

“There was a girl who came up to me on the street the other day, she bloomed out of the pavement... and…

— J.K. Rowling

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had…

— Hannah Simone

“They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know…

— Adam Baker

I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him.…

— Jennifer Egan

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start…

— Antonia Fraser

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood…

— Justin Theroux

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I…

— Gao Xingjian

I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is…

— Anthony Jeselnik

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk,…

— Lionel Shriver

We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We…

— Marilynne Robinson

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're…

— Jane Fonda

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think…

— Burgess Meredith

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my…

— William Gibson

My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two…

— Jay-Z

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. . .

— Anonymous

“Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.”

— Beverly Cleary

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on…

— Hilary Hahn

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

— Andrew Wiles

Since my childhood, I have seen 'Nagina,' 'Chalbaaz' and 'Mr. India' so many times.

— Rupali Ganguly

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

— Sarah Waters

“We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

When I was young, and it was raining, I used to watch two drops of water roll down the window and pretend…

— Brookelle Willcox

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

— Giacomo Leopardi

Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up...what the hell were we thinking?

— Keren Zhims

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

— Gaston Bachelard

I have been following the Dakar since childhood. I always wanted to do it.

— Andre Villas-Boas

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

— Will Forte

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were…

— Mitch Albom

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

— Joan Crawford

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

— Emily Dickinson