Childhood Quotes · Page 53

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

— Frank Herbert

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

— Loren Eiseley

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

— Christina Ricci

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

— Joss Whedon

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood,…

— Karin Slaughter

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

— J. B. Pritzker

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents,…

— Harville Hendrix

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.'…

— Jimmy Barnes

I am the kind of guy who you'll always see smiling. My childhood was like this. I had a lot of fun.…

— Fred

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which…

— Christopher Hitchens

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is…

— Gary Chapman

“...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat…

— Gillian Flynn

I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life…

— Romany Malco

If I hadn't become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough…

— Ainsley Harriott

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a…

— Gloria Steinem

“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost…

— Penelope Lively

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments.…

— Paulo Coelho

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

— Patricia MacLachlan

“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.”

— Gary Shteyngart

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

— Joan Rivers

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

— Gary Webb

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.”

— Lorrie Moore

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the…

— Alice Hoffman

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

— Karel Appel

Since childhood, I have wanted to become Miss Universe India, and I did. I am so grateful to God for that.

— Urvashi Rautela

Finding Nemo coming out in 3D, then the sequel? My childhood is coming back :)

— Anonymous

Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.

— Genesis Rodriguez

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

— Christopher Morley

Sometimes I wish I was a little child again, because bruised knees heals better than a broken heart.

— Anonymous

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

— Johny Hendricks