Childhood Quotes · Page 76

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

— John Edward Christopher Hill

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

— Lee Ranaldo

When I was kid, werewolves and vampires were scary. Now everyone wants to date them.

— Anonymous

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

— Sarah Hyland

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

— Ross Duffer

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

— Louise Hay

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of…

— David Riesman

The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.…

— Walter Isaacson

My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still…

— Sophie Dahl

Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in…

— Pamela Druckerman

There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - we're talking sixth…

— Adam Ross

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

An orphaned childhood asks, Am I the outcome of someones sin or the result of transgression committed by my mother in her…

— Mak_786

Hindi music is something that I always loved since my childhood, my father Mr. Satyamurty was a legendary movie writer in the…

— Devi Sri Prasad

Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of…

— Judith Viorst

My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's…

— Robin Williams

“ Only In Sleep Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes…

— Sara Teasdale

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might…

— Robert Fulghum

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important…

— Genie Francis

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read…

— Mohsin Hamid

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a…

— Pat Conroy

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

— David Gest

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

— Tom Vilsack

Having spent my childhood and teenage in London, it gave me a western orientation of mind.

— Simi Garewal

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.

— Theophilus London

“This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.”

— Nina LaCour

“It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA”

— Amita Trasi

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

— Kinky Friedman

I still love cartoons because it never fails to make me smile just like those old days when I was a kid.

— Anonymous

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

— Shakira

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

— Anita Desai

Childhood is like being drunk; everyone remembers what you did, except you.

— Anonymous

“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.”

— Anna Quindlen

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

— Elizabeth Goudge

I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.

— Baron Vaughn

“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”

— Michael P. Naughton

It's the prettiest place on the planet. My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.

— Greg Behrendt