Childhood Quotes · Page 57

The pain from the abuse never went away, you just embraced it to become what you are today

— Anonymous

Part of my childhood was spent in Sydney and part in rural New South Wales, at Armidale.

— John Cornforth

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

— Max Muller

“Childhood indoctrination is the most effective way to change the society”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

— Jimmy Barnes

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

— George Saunders

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

— Cordae

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

— Agatha Christie

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have…

— Nigella Lawson

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I…

— Alan Hovhaness

I have the most wonderful childhood memories of holidays in the golden age before foreign package holidays were even a glint in…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was…

— Kameron Hurley

“In childhood, she had had milk allergies, or so they’d thought. But either she’d never had them or had outgrown them or…

— Caroline B. Cooney

“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into…

— Orson Scott Card

“Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.”

— Asa Don Brown

I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways…

— Rick Riordan

Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not…

— Laura Dern

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and…

— Jon Meacham

People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles…

— Halima Aden

We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the…

— James Arness

That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time…

— Max Richter

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me…

— Joni Mitchell

“Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who…

— Jonathan Carroll

I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in…

— Owen King

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

— Rachel Dolezal

“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.”

— K. Arsenault Rivera

“My whole life, you have made decisions for me." "Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.”

— Sarah MacLean

“I got through my childhood in a delirium of literary exaltations.”

— Susan Sontag

I remember when I was a kid, I went on the computer just to use Paint.

— Anonymous

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

— Michael Jackson

“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

— King Diamond

I spent my whole childhood, my college years, thinking that I was going to be a doctor.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

“Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be?”

— Monique Martin

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

I don't know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.

— Dhanush

When I was a kid, I hated going to bed. Now I cherish every hour of sleep.

— Anonymous

“What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes