Childhood Quotes · Page 83

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

I mean that's most guys' dream is to play for their childhood team.

— Carson Palmer

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

— Richard Linklater

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never…

— Colin Thompson

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to…

— Ellen Glasgow

“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.”

— Robert Goolrick

“Repetition is the proof of sincerity. Saying what you mean is important. It's a turning point.”

— Avi

I had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can…

— Viv Richards

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many…

— Peter Temple

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's…

— Beatrix Campbell

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be…

— Charles Dickens

I found my childhood scrapbook and there's an interview in there with dad from 1970. He talks about how long he's been…

— Jason Bonham

I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster…

— Olivia Wilde

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

When I ask my husband, for example, if he's talked to his childhood best friend recently, he always tells me yes and…

— Brett Cooper

Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint…

— Richard Brautigan

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel…

— Michael Ende

We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and…

— Barack Obama

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I miss those times of my cute childhood.I miss those bike rides in night that cold air I miss that time when…

— Mishal

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in…

— Michael Ondaatje

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

— Sonia Orwell

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”

— Lorna Crozier

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

— Darell Hammond

My childhood was not great but not that bad either. I've always had a loving and caring mother with me.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

As a child my family's menu consisted of two things : take it or leave it.

— Buddy Hackett

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare…

— Maurice Sendak

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

— David Sobel

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

— Janisse Ray

A Sister Is A Major Part Of Your Childhood That Can Never Be Forgoten

— Mya Doty

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

— Maureen Forrester

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

— Dean Koontz

Since childhood, I wanted to be a hero, but now, I want to be an actor.

— Sunny Singh

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

— MO

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

— Cleo Moore