Childhood Quotes · Page 55

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her…

— Jacqueline Wilson

As an Indian and as a Hindu, I have been taught to see God everywhere right from my childhood.

— Alok Nath

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

— E. B. White

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

— Michael Jackson

“You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.”

— Toba Beta

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” Sigmund Freud thefathersday.com”

— Vinay Chouhan

I have these vivid - some fabulous, some not so fabulous - childhood memories of driving to Lake Tahoe.

— Julie Foudy

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

— Anonymous

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them,…

— Marcel Proust

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on,…

— Jake Busey

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

— Gail Sheehy

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've…

— Daryl Gates

The most common characteristic of childhood building toys is that they snap together in one way or another. Technology is constantly shifting,…

— Cathy Engelbert

Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have…

— Philip Roth

“It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything…

— Isabel Miller

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your…

— John Dufresne

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead…

— Harris L Coulter

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have…

— Soledad O'Brien

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…

— Charles Frazier

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other…

— Jaden Smith

“I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: hours spent in airless classrooms, days home sick from…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens

In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.…

— Barbara Holland

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

— Black Thought

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

— Gary Numan

“Separated by so much more than distance and lifestyle, even their memories of a shared childhood have faded from their minds.”

— Tabitha Suzuma

I'm very anxious and kind of dorky and weird, and definitely was that as a kid.

— Ayo Edebiri

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

— Sara Shandler

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

My childhood hero is Mo Cheeks of the 76ers, No. 10. One of my all time favorites.

— Aaron Boone

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

— Marilyn Monroe

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

— Sam Gyimah

“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.”

— Martin I. Green

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

— Barbet Schroeder

When I was little...I used to think that the moon followed my car.

— Anonymous