Childhood Quotes · Page 46

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so…

— Samuel Rogers

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

— Vanessa Paradis

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.”

— Louise Gluck

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

— Prunella Scales

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing…

— Marshall McLuhan

For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to…

— Samantha Akkineni

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really…

— Donna Tartt

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are…

— Ken Robinson

My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course,…

— Sean Scully

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

— Robbie Robertson

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill…

— Myles Horton

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents…

— David Elkind

“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that…

— Stanisław Lem

I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When…

— Misty Copeland

“As a boy, Ogion like all boys had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art-magic whatever shape…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight…

— Daniel Dennett

If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were…

— Dylan Lauren

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so…

— Josephine Hart

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is…

— T. S. Eliot

“Maybe it was the state of childhood to not question and fear everything, it’d been so long, Pete couldn’t remember.”

— Smith Henderson

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

— John Taylor Gatto

For me, games against Arsenal are always beautiful because in my childhood they were my favourite team.

— David Alaba

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood…

— Al Sharpton

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

— Tony Harrison

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

— Ted Naifeh

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

— Truman Capote

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

— Farhan Akhtar

“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.”

— Patti Larsen

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

— Jane Wiedlin

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

— Robert Vaughn

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

— Rain Dove

I miss the days when shouting 'Not it!' was an effective way of getting out of things you didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.”

— Eileen Kennedy-Moore