Childhood Quotes · Page 43

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

— Saqib Saleem

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

— Corey Feldman

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

— John Betjeman

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

— Aleatha Romig

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

— Elie Wiesel

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

— Homer

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home…

— Devon Werkheiser

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak…

— Chris Meledandri

I sincerely miss being a kid and being the first one up, watching Saturday morning cartoons with a bowl of cinnamon toast…

— Anonymous

“She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a…

— Suzanne Jenkins

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed…

— Jean Cocteau

I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world…

— Paulo Coelho

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same…

— Dorothy Parker

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad.…

— Tracy Letts

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society.…

— Luke Mitchell

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared…

— Stephen King

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel…

— Bharati Mukherjee

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms…

— Cilla Black

I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood!…

— Amy Chua

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had…

— Andrea Navedo

“We were all grinning and everyone had their eyes open for once. Ian must have been moving - his hand was blurred.…

— Inga Simpson

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

— Alex Hirsch

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

— Lori Gottlieb

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

— Andrew Wiles

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

— Maria Montessori

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

— Richard Zera

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.”

— Ted Dekker

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best…

— Judit Polgar

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

— S. E. Hinton

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

— Orson Scott Card

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. . .

— Anonymous

I want my childhood back ... want all precious days of my life ... I want my girlfriend when I am in 2nd grade

— Dheeraj Meena

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

— Robert Breault

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present…

— Sandra Bullock