Childhood Quotes · Page 47

In childhood we cry loudly to get what we like, but when grown up we cry silently to forget what we like.

— Anonymous

“Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.”

— Kathy Mckeon

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own…

— Roger Ross Williams

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

— Walter Savage Landor

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

— Mary Cholmondeley

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what…

— Misty Copeland

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

— J. K. Rowling

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts…

— David Grann

I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I…

— Goswami Kriyananda

“The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I needed a tough dad. I grew up with a poor single mom in a very bad neighborhood. I was scared my…

— Tony Hinchcliffe

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for…

— Horace Mann

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...…

— Rula Jebreal

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a…

— Stefano Gabbana

I just remember I'd snap over little things when I was younger a lot. It was more just trying to control yourself…

— Brad Marchand

I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy…

— Bryan Singer

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we…

— Ayelet Waldman

“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,…

— Katherine Dunn

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in…

— Peace Pilgrim

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the…

— Louis Auchincloss

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately…

— George F. Kennan

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be…

— George Lakoff

“I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet…

— Robertson Davies

You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an…

— Jennifer Rardin

My dream since childhood has been to one-day give back to society and try to improve on what I didn't have during…

— Victor Wanyama

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

— Katherine Johnson

The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an…

— Emil Zatopek

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

— Paris Jackson

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

— Mignon McLaughlin

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

— Jimmy Iovine

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

— Robert Bly

That moment when you look at your childhood pics and say wtf was that really me!

— Christine Ramkran

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

— Socrates

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

— Mika

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.

— Caroline Pratt

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

— Jason Becker

Who doesn't love Donna Summer's music? It was part of my childhood, always heard around the house.

— LaChanze

“Impossible to say why childhood joy ends with such finality in so many things.”

— Dave Franklin

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make…

— Paul Thomas Anderson