Childhood Quotes · Page 51

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

— Emily Ratajkowski

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

— Bernie Sanders

The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone.

— Jim Gaffigan

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

— Seamus Heaney

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova

As a parent I'm really concerned about childhood obesity. *drives kid 3 blocks to school*

— Anonymous

You know your childhood is over when you fall asleep on the couch and wake up on the couch...

— Anonymous

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

— Gail Carson Levine

Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been acting forever, and wardrobe changes the way…

— Allison Mack

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not…

— Carlo Collodi

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

Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs.…

— Emily Meade

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

— Hamish Bowles

Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,…

— Dean Ornish

We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when…

— C. Sommerville

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with…

— Vangelis

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected…

— Lloyd deMause

“Your childhood is in the past, but your current situation is triggering your story and making you feel like you’re back in…

— Michelle Skeen

I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why…

— Rob Schneider

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the…

— Sally Mann

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and…

— Anonymous

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might…

— Carlos Tevez

“The hard thin body of my childhood was just beginning to miraculously soften like the cracked ground of wadi when rain falls.”

— Rinsai Rossetti

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off…

— Tove Ditlevsen

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

— King Krule

When I was little, I had a huge imagination. Now, I can't even make up a story for English class.

— Anonymous

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

— P. D. James

It's funny how when you're a kid a day can last forever, and now all these years seem to pass like a…

— Anonymous

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

— Luke Evans

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I have been passionate about cricket since childhood. I played the sport at the inter-school and inter-college level.

— Mukesh Rishi

Looking at old pictures & noticing how lame you were when you were younger.

— Anonymous

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

— Sonia Braga

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do…

— Ru Freeman

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

— Roger Moore

“Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.”

— Debra Dean

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

— Dan Simmons