Childhood Quotes · Page 75

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

— Rachel Cusk

I miss my childhood, no homework, no wake up early, no exam, no stress, no problems in life

— Patience

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

— El-P

10-year-old girls crying because they broke up with their boyfriends. When I was 10 I cried when I missed the morning cartoons.

— Anonymous

I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge.

— Anonymous

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

— Bernard Tomic

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now,…

— Michael Chabon

I'd get people asking me about my terrible, poor childhood which, in fact, was very normal, and I'd think, would you be…

— Lynne Ramsay

“You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept…

— Mitch Albom

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

— Anton Chekhov

“Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever before Stoney came back to the surface. Most of…

— Cole Alpaugh

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

— Luciana Berger

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard,…

— Kenneth Bonert

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,…

— Mavis Gallant

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that…

— Edward Hirsch

“At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt…

— Neil Gaiman

I think there was, like, a childhood moment where I had to pick shoes, either non-marking or marking shoes. The marking shoes…

— Tennys Sandgren

“One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around…

— David Foster Wallace

A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as…

— Hermann Hesse

For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without…

— Yaya Toure

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that…

— George Orwell

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

— Stephen King

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

— Kurt Vile

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin

We have ALL waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because theyre taking too long to come out...

— Anonymous

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

— Laura Schlessinger

When I was little, I used to sing in the shower. Now? I make life decisions in there.

— Obviously Me :p

I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.

— Alexander Gilkes

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

— Alex Hirsch