Childhood Quotes · Page 39

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

— Cesare Beccaria

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

— Teyonah Parris

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

— George Sand

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was…

— Laurie Helgoe

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere…

— Lucy Davis

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands…

— Michael Chabon

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community…

— Orhan Pamuk

My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can…

— Nargis Fakhri

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I…

— Shane Koyczan

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in…

— Misty Copeland

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss…

— Tippi Hedren

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of…

— Neha Kakkar

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily…

— Anne Lamott

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who…

— Sandra Scarr

As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his…

— Augustus Napier

I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless…

— Eugene Ionesco

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and…

— Lady Bird Johnson

People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both…

— Alice Miller

You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different…

— Les Wexner

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”

— Italo Calvino

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

— Ice Cube

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

— Paul Auster

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

— Anonymous

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good…

— Ingrid Pitt

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

“The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

— Flannery O'Connor

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

— Thomas Gray

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

— Paul Vallas

When you used to sleep with all of your stuffed animals as a child so none of them would be jealous!

— Anonymous

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

— Wendy Liebman