Childhood Quotes · Page 58

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

— Pam Ferris

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

— Shania Twain

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

— Harlan Ellison

Time goes by, but marbles is one of those simple kids games that boys hardly forget how to play.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked…

— Roger Federer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

— Dave Pelzer

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

— Josh Lucas

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment…

— Narendra Modi

Music was important in our childhood. It wasn't something that we had to do. My father's attitude was, 'If you want to…

— Cedella Marley

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why…

— Anonymous

I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would…

— Harshvardhan Rane

My dad wants me to grow up, to start wearing makeup and caring about clothes. I know I should want to, I…

— Leila

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine…

— Mariah Carey

My mother raised us out of the limelight and told us not to say we were Bruce Lee's children, so I had…

— Shannon Lee

We remember our childhood and would cry until tomorrow / today on the delicate shoulders burden of heavy school bags and aspirations…

— Mak_786

Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and…

— James Badge Dale

We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty…

— Bernie Sanders

Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,…

— Randall Jarrell

“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling…

— Margaret Atwood

I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs…

— Jessie J

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what…

— Lady Gregory

To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously…

— Robert Manne

It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey…

— John Campbell Shairp

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

— Colin MacInnes

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow…

— Anna Quindlen

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous

“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.”

— Angelika Regossi

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

— Jenna McCarthy

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis

“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”

— Daphne du Maurier

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

The Flyers winning back to back Stanley Cups, all of those things were a part of my childhood.

— Sean Payton

“For him, it appeared he could freeze the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his hands like water.”

— J.U. Scribe

“Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

— Tina Yothers

If you never jumped from couch to couch as kid to avoid the lava, then you missed out on childhood.

— Anonymous

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

— Richard Simmons

Life was a lot easier when the only thing I had to take care of was a Tamagotchi.

— Anonymous