Childhood Quotes · Page 79

Life was much simpler when my biggest dilemma in life was deciding what Pop-Tart to eat for breakfast.

— Anonymous

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

— Beverly Cleary

The insistence of childhood come back to me / But today no one can take care of them

— Mak_786

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

— John Gardner

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

— Cecily Strong

Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.

— Marguerite Duras

When I was little I'd put my arms in my shirt and told people I lost my arms.

— Anonymous

When you were little sticking your tongue out was like giving some one the middle finger.

— Anonymous

Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least…

— Pico Iyer

I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme…

— Channing Tatum

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor…

— Sheila Kaye-Smith

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a…

— Neil Gaiman

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy…

— Emma Donoghue

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I…

— Olivia Colman

I think the most important thing is to be honest, and I have always been honest as to how I have grown…

— Zohran Mamdani

I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving…

— Tim Gunn

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to…

— Bruce Springsteen

During my time in the state Senate, I've worked to make sure every Kansas child has the support they need to succeed.…

— Laura Kelly

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take…

— Per Petterson

“The child wonders at the Christmas Tree: Let him continue in the spirit of wonder At the Feast as an event not…

— T.S. Eliot

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with…

— Jack Kerouac

“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date…

— David Wroblewski

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put…

— Philip Pullman

My early childhood was notable by an absence of proper meals and highly processed food.

— Ulrika Jonsson

“...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.”

— Lev Grossman

“When did a person begin to emerge from that fantastical sea of childhood onto the dry land of adult existence?”

— Erin Hart

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different…

— Amanda Schull

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

— John Rocha

If you were born in the 90's The best P.E. lessons involved a rainbow colored parachute...

— Brandon Martin

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is…

— Pam Brown

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

— Philippa Pearce

In my childhood, I always played as Barcelona on the PlayStation.

— Marco Reus

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

— Maya Lin

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

— Adam Sandler

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were…

— Lily King

In 'Gossip Girl,' I was far too judgmental of everything that was happening, because I was young.

— Penn Badgley

I say parenting is like maths sum. You take one step, and your child takes another.

— Paritoshik Sharma

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

— Kailash Satyarthi