Childhood Quotes · Page 45

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

— Lindsey Vonn

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

— Paris Hilton

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

— Deborah Davis

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It will never be all that I want it to be… But it is always twice what I expected.”

— James Qualls

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

— Vivienne Westwood

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

— Ernest Hemingway

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

— Bill Hicks

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room…

— Jessie J

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily…

— Aisha Tyler

I spent my whole childhood being told, 'Israel is surrounded by enemies who are trying to push it into the sea.' But…

— Nathan Englander

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please…

— Roald Dahl

To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal…

— Edin Dzeko

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the…

— Glenn Kurtz

I hate how much of your future is dependent on your adolescence. You never get to truly enjoy your childhood. You're forced…

— Anonymous

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current…

— Nyjah Huston

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start…

— C. Sommerville

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only…

— Paul Bowles

When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from…

— George Carlin

I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when…

— James Hillman

The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I couldn't really tell if it was a different childhood because I was used to it, it was kind of normal to…

— DeAndre Yedlin

You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own…

— Baron Vaughn

To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood.…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American…

— Rachel Dolezal

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

— Robert Downey Jr

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

— Carrie Brownstein

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

— Karen White

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

— Jonathan Ames

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

— Mindy Kaling

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

— Philip Roth

“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”

— C.J. Heck

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still…

— Jonathan Majors

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most”

— Savannah Brown