Childhood Quotes · Page 70

I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.

— James Blunt

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Susan Cheever

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

— Urmila Matondkar

“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.”

— Wilkie Collins

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’

— Paul Feig

That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

— Harry Connick, Jr

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which…

— Howard Pyle

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of…

— Elizabeth Taylor

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today…

— Jean Fritz

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that…

— Patsy Cline

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

— Edna O'Brien

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to…

— Jo Nesbo

Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my…

— Howard Stern

The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other…

— Bell Hooks

Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint…

— Richard Brautigan

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in…

— Michael Ondaatje

I miss those times of my cute childhood.I miss those bike rides in night that cold air I miss that time when…

— Mishal

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

— Theodore Dalrymple

We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and…

— Barack Obama

We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of…

— Adriana Lima

I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

“You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when…

— K. Jared Hosein

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my…

— Goldie

“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she…

— Diane Grifith

“Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood! @ viorel muha”

— Viorel Muha

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

— Beatrix Potter

“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

— Kelley Armstrong

Children should have a childhood and that shouldn't be taken away.

— Ayesha Takia

So Im pretty sure Im doing this teenager thing completely wrong.

— Anonymous

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

— D. H. Lawrence

Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to…

— Ray Davies

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as…

— Lucy Punch

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

— C. JoyBell C

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

— Michael McMillian

“A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.”

— Stephen Richards

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza