Childhood Quotes · Page 74

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

— Cesare Beccaria

Working with Suriya is like a dream-come-true moment for me. I've been following Suriya's films right from my childhood.

— Sai Pallavi

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

— Michael Grant

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can…

— Mike Lookinland

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

— Frank Gehry

“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

I miss the days when you could just push someone into a pool without worrying about their cell phone.

— Anonymous

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can…

— Michael Sandel

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids,…

— Venus Williams

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would…

— Tove Ditlevsen

I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I…

— Isabelle Adjani

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns…

— Lewis H. Lapham

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

— Jerry Doyle

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of…

— Thomas Traherne

“I still dream in pictures and color, always the world of my childhood. I see the purple Judas trees at Easter lighting…

— Deborah Lawrenson

To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.…

— Mark Coleman

“There are always mystical countries that are a part of one's childhood. Those we remember and visit sometimes when we are asleep…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything…

— Kathy Hepinstall

I really love MFK Fisher's food writing, and obviously Anthony Bourdain's food writing is exceptional, in particular 'A Cook's Tour'. I really…

— Michelle Zauner

I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might…

— Jennifer Lynch

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

— Cesar Chavez

I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro;…

— James A. Michener

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

— Amitava Kumar

I was born in Pennsylvania, but for most of my childhood, my family lived in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Beth Behrs

I think mostly music just felt good because my parents gave me a real good childhood so I was rarely sad.

— Jason Becker

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad…

— Marisol Nichols

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone, I need to use the internet.'

— Anonymous

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

— David Lynch

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

I love the idea of my daughter looking back at her childhood and growing up with a dog.

— Erika Christensen

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

— James Gunn

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

— Nadya Suleman

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read…

— Priyadarshan

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

— Seth MacFarlane

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

— Amanda Harlech

Some things that happen to you in childhood you never forget. You don't forget how people treated you or your parents.

— Cedella Marley

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

— Peter Diamandis