Childhood Quotes · Page 49

Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and…

— Michael Carrick

Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

— Charles Churchill

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

— Anne Sexton

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

— Anthony Doerr

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

— Woody Allen

“it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.”

— Astrid Lindgren

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt

“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight…

— Kris Kidd

'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time.…

— Devin Ratray

The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first…

— Bill Gates

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,…

— Ben Elliot

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That…

— Sofia Helin

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life…

— Isabel Allende

“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit…

— Rachel Marie Martin

“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it,…

— J.M. Barrie

“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on…

— Svetlana Alexievich

And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and…

— Anna Quindlen

“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived…

— Nikki Sixx

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“These young women are of great interest for medicine and moralists—small defenseless creatures who, because of feuding heirs, are sent here at…

— Paulo Coelho

Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't…

— Anonymous

“tried to go to a counselor, but it was just too weird. Talking to some stranger about my feelings made me want…

— J.D. Vance

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our…

— George Eliot

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

— Novak Djokovic

The time of childhood love, empathy and care passes. He is at ease and blissful. But this pleasure gradually decreases with age

— Mak_786

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

— Ron Perlman

“A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.”

— Lydia Netzer

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

— Dennis Potter

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

— Jimmy Buffett

I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.

— Prodigy

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

— Matthieu Ricard

I was the kid that would restart the video game whenever I knew I was going to lose.

— Anonymous

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

— Jill Biden

There's always going to be something about coming back to New York because I'm from New York. It takes me back to…

— Billy Donovan

When I was kid, I used to think pay-per-view was actually paper view.

— Anonymous

Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of…

— Jack Davenport

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how…

— John Grisham

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

— Oprah Winfrey