Childhood Quotes · Page 191

I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the…

— Anonymous

Right from my childhood I used to physically fight with boys.

— Jwala Gutta

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

— Harper Lee

“THE LILIES This morning it was, on the pavement, When that smell hit me again And set the houses reeling. People passed…

— Doris Lessing

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I…

— Anthony Hopkins

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

— Bill Watterson

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

— Shakira

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

— John Taylor Gatto

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

— Beverly Cleary

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking…

— Charlie Sheen

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

— Emily Ratajkowski

That moment when you look at your childhood pics and say wtf was that really me!

— Christine Ramkran

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

— Tammy Duckworth

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more…

— Bob Marley

I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I…

— Isabelle Adjani

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

— Sarah Waters

When I talk about it, now people imagine I had an impoverished childhood, especially when I tell people we used to have…

— Troy Deeney

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be…

— Anonymous

I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think…

— Anonymous

I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I…

— Louise Hay

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C.…

— David Suzuki

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick…

— Rosellen Brown