Childhood Quotes · Page 36

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

— Stephen King

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge.

— Anonymous

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

— Bernard Tomic

“You can't go home again. Your childhood is lost. The friends of your youth are gone. Your present is slipping away from…

— Heraclitus of Ephesus

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance…

— Anonymous

I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I…

— Celine Sciamma

I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in…

— Donnie Yen

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in…

— John Irving

I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood…

— Jameela Jamil

Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood,…

— Sergei Polunin

It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends,…

— Sadio Mane

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it,…

— William Landay

Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as…

— Lillian B. Rubin

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it…

— Dylan Thomas

“She worked three jobs to support us. Eventually, she got strong again. And there was never another argument in the house. We…

— Sibel Hodge

Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest,…

— Guy Kawasaki

Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it…

— Dominique Crenn

Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister…

— Carla Hall

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

— El-P

10-year-old girls crying because they broke up with their boyfriends. When I was 10 I cried when I missed the morning cartoons.

— Anonymous

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— John Edward Christopher Hill

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

— Alex Hirsch

When I was little, I used to sing in the shower. Now? I make life decisions in there.

— Obviously Me :p

I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.

— Alexander Gilkes

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

— Laura Schlessinger

We have ALL waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because theyre taking too long to come out...

— Anonymous

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

— Simi Garewal

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

— Tom Vilsack

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

— David Gest

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

— Louise Hay