Childhood Quotes · Page 40

“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.”

— Bauvard

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

— Jimmy Barnes

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

— Tina Yothers

I've had a dead childhood because I was working so much that I wanted to take an early retirement.

— Rimi Sen

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

— Jennifer Egan

Drowned in the sea of responsiblities, a man is compelled to forget everything but his childhood.Mak_786

— Mak_786

From childhood I have played for India. I have represented India. I have always been a proud Indian.

— Jwala Gutta

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

— Wil Wheaton

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden…

— Jimmy Barnes

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I…

— Asin

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it…

— Jeremy Sisto

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed…

— Peter Straub

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to…

— George Eliot

I have been to Golden Temple couple of times now. I feel calm and at peace when I am there. It's a…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest…

— E. B. White

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having…

— Margaret Atwood

Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early…

— Julia Serano

“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults.…

— Steven Millhauser

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been…

— Marilyn Monroe

I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“With simplification we can bring an infusion of inspiration to our daily lives; set a tone that honors our families' needs before…

— Kim John Payne

Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my…

— Brigham Young

[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be…

— Richard Dawkins

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

— Peter Dinklage

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

— Carol O'Connell

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

— Narendra Modi

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

— Jeremy Denk

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

— Julian Cope

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

— John Irving

When I was little I would be so entertained on cartoons and now I sleep to them.

— Anonymous

In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.

— Koena Mitra

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in…

— Josh Peck

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

— Louise Glück

“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.”

— Aliki

“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

— Samuel Woodworth

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los…

— Kathy Hilton

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

— Kailash Satyarthi