Childhood Quotes · Page 49

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

— Rian Johnson

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

From childhood I have played for India. I have represented India. I have always been a proud Indian.

— Jwala Gutta

When you're watching a cartoon and you understand the dirty joke that you never understood as a kid.

— Anonymous

“We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.”

— Norman Spinrad

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

— Anthony Doerr

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

— Plato

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

— Louise Erdrich

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations…

— Lilian Katz

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can…

— Michael Sandel

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children…

— L.R. Knost

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I…

— David Rockwell

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really…

— Adam F. Goldberg

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My…

— Edgar Allan Poe

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of…

— Martha Wainwright

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma…

— Suzanne Somers

“Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon,"…

— George R.R. Martin

“My mother is European and expresses her love through food and cuddling. She wasn't the type of mother who would make it…

— Chelsea Handler

The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

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

— Mark Twain

Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be…

— Bruce Cockburn

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto…

— James Hillman

“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete…

— Neil Perryman

“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults…

— Pradeep Sebastian

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

— Andrew Wiles

Pleasing illusion: if my childhood had been the Paradise it should have been, all would now be well.

— Mason Cooley

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

— Andy Hargreaves

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

— Georg Trakl

That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

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

— Katherine Johnson

“It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

— Maria Montessori

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

— Lindsey Vonn

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

— Maurice Sendak

I miss the days when you could just push someone into a pool without worrying about their cell phone.

— Anonymous

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

— Thomas Nagel

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

“Never stop screaming, playing and laughing, it's part of our childhood wich will always be with us.”

— Romina Noriega