Childhood Quotes · Page 50

“Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .”

— Carol Shields

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything

— Robin Quivers

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

— Florence Pugh

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

— Michael Jackson

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all…

— Ethel Waters

As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.

— Rodney Crowell

“Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.”

— Linda McCarriston

Right from childhood we are trained into believing what is right and what is wrong. We seldom question.

— Sanjay Mishra

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing…

— Alan Hollinghurst

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

— Maurice Sendak

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with.…

— Julia Fox

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.…

— Tess Gerritsen

The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to…

— Courtney Act

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Up there in the sky. Don’t you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn’t always a…

— William Joyce

“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it…

— Richard Dawkins

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the…

— LaChanze

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a…

— Will Shetterly

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if…

— Olga Trujillo

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an…

— Dani Shapiro

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a…

— Pablo Picasso

“We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.”

— Vadim Babenko

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

— James M. Barrie

“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.”

— Catherine Lacey

“by the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age way too soon our childhoods were swept away”

— Roo Bardookie

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced…

— Patrick Modiano

Since my childhood, I have been watching Telugu films. It was always my dream to make it big here.

— Priyamani

We are taught in childhood,, lie is a big sin,, We realize that being young, was the biggest lie,, that was taught…

— Mak_786

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

— George Michael

Everyday it just feels like my childhood memories are slowly fading away.

— Anonymous

When I was little I faked being asleep, so I would be carried to bed.

— Anonymous

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I miss my childhood, no homework, no waking up early, no exams, no stress, no problems in life

— Anonymous

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

— Mae West

Remember the time we used to get on the computer just for paint?

— Anonymous