Childhood Quotes · Page 56

“Intelligence is a multiplication of Experiences & Surroundings we come across in our childhood.”

— Hems

I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.

— Asha Bhosle

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

— Theodore L. Cuyler

I was always being told to calm down, to chill out, to slow down. I was a bad toddler, I was a…

— Michelle Zauner

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

— Alison Gopnik

Yes, we want young footballers to develop their skills, but we also want them to have a childhood and enjoy the game.

— David James

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

— Bill Ward

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang…

— Jessica Alba

My unforgettable childhood memory was when I got Bidaai.' I was in school when I got this show and I was in…

— Sara Khan

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…

— Diane Ackerman

“Calvin, yelling: Mom, can I set fire to my bed mattress? Calvin's Mom: No, Calvin. Calvin: Can I ride my tricycle on…

— Bill Watterson

“Was the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with…

— Rosamund Lupton

“In the right frame of mind, to walk from one room in a house to another can be exploration of the highest…

— Robert Macfarlane

When I see a shoe, I deconstruct it in my head. It comes from spending childhood summers around my grandad's denim factory…

— Tan France

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we…

— Paulo Coelho

I spent my childhood clad in 1970s hand-me-downs, primarily from male cousins, which mainly consisted of a selection of beige, brown and…

— Miranda Hart

I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the…

— Dolores Huerta

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the…

— Augusten Burroughs

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect…

— Teresa de Lauretis

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of…

— Charles J. Shields

I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I…

— Wade Barrett

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all…

— Alan Moore

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

— Stefflon Don

You know your childhood is pretty much over when you fall asleep on the couch, and wake up on the f*cking couch.

— Psyche_Zeroh

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

— Garrison Keillor

I want to go back in my childhood days / so they could correct mistakes / what now my life is hollow…

— Mak_786

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as…

— Bernard Arnault

To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

— Alex Shakar

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

— Mary McCartney

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

— Paul Tough

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

— Federico Fellini

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

— Debra Stephenson

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

— Ravi Shankar

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

— Tracy Kidder

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

— Harry Stack Sullivan