Childhood Quotes · Page 54

I was fascinated by aeroplanes in my childhood. So, it was like I wanted to study science and then become a pilot.

— Mayank Agarwal

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

— Chrissy Metz

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st…

— Tess Gerritsen

10-year-old girls crying because they broke up with their boyfriends. When I was 10 I cried when I missed the morning cartoons.

— Anonymous

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

— El-P

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge.

— Anonymous

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

— Bernard Tomic

My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable.…

— Michelle Magorian

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my…

— Helen Garner

I started working in a tire shop when I was 12, so my childhood was cut off early because I had to…

— Alex Pereira

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood…

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood…

— Chelsea Kane

In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative…

— Frederick Lenz

She trained as a ballet dancer yet she was an iron fist in a velvet glove. My younger brother Luca and I…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and…

— Victor Ortiz

I wish I was still that little girl..the one that the only kind of hurt was when I scraped my knees. When…

— Anonymous

I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept.…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to…

— Justine Musk

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be…

— Hermann Hesse

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.…

— John Mortimer

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to…

— Thomas Szasz

“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn’t break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn’t…

— John Darnielle

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

— Stephen King

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

— Kurt Vile

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad…

— Marisol Nichols

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

— David Lynch

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone, I need to use the internet.'

— Anonymous

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

— James Gunn

I love the idea of my daughter looking back at her childhood and growing up with a dog.

— Erika Christensen