Childhood Quotes · Page 80

I miss the days when all it took to make me feel better was my teddy bear.

— Anonymous

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

— Deborah Kaplan

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

— Adam Phillips

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

— Bart Millard

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

— Dusty Springfield

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

— Jon Lovett

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

— Josh Gondelman

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

— Shan Sa

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.…

— Jude Law

The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he…

— Chris Borland

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up,…

— Gegard Mousasi

We get to do what we love, and that's the most important thing. I feel very thankful, every day that I get…

— Howard Berger

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I…

— David Rockwell

Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even…

— Swami Vivekananda

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never…

— Josh Gondelman

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably…

— The Edge

To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity,…

— Jacob Weisberg

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play…

— Alex Kingston

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,…

— Marlo Thomas

I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways,…

— Zoltan Istvan

Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than…

— Jan Hunt

For me, the only drag about the whole thing is that a lot of my childhood friends had to be relocated to…

— Victor Rasuk

“It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition. War reminded me of the…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes…

— Betty Friedan

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

— Seanan McGuire

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

— Bill Bryson

I felt so miserable for my whole childhood. All my parents could do was try their best.

— Chappell Roan

“I put it aside, buried it with all the other small shames and mortifications of my childhood.”

— Robin LaFevers

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still…

— Sara Evans

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

— Jane Goldman

The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

— Larry the Cable Guy

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

— Carol Shields

“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.”

— Gene Wolfe

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a…

— Taylor Momsen

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

— Sandra Bullock

Cherish each moment with your children for you can never bring back their childhood.

— Anonymous

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

— Jason Butler Harner

“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

— Lindsey Vonn