Childhood Quotes · Page 59

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

— Travis Barker

I agree I was rash and got totally out of hand when I was a teenager, but I took hold of my…

— Bobby Deol

Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

— Tammy Duckworth

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

— Anthony Yarde

“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”

— Carrie Ryan

I wish I could go back in time and live my childhood all over again.. life back then was just perfect and…

— Haroun Chebbi

“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.”

— Kirsty Logan

“Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even…

— R. Kelly

I actually grew up around the corner from where Harold Pinter did. If you want a snapshot of my childhood, me and…

— Zawe Ashton

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling…

— Fantasia Barrino

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I…

— Natalia Vodianova

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't…

— Daniel Wolpert

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood…

— Mohsin Hamid

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing…

— Katherine Waterston

“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are…

— Roxane Gay

Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and…

— Pete Docter

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always…

— Spike Jonze

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is…

— George MacDonald

Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like…

— Scott Anderson

I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays,…

— Sarah Ruhl

Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves…

— Anonymous

“Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for…

— Philip Pullman

“some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.”

— Don DeLillo

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

— W. P. Kinsella

I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and…

— Mike Flanagan

“The romance of your child's childhood may be the last romance you can give up.”

— Adam Gopnik

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

— Wendy Wasserstein

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old…

— Vera Nazarian

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

— Katharine Anthony

I had such a pure upbringing - my childhood was a really happy time.

— Tye Sheridan

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

— Paul Feig

The walk of shame when you have to put something back in a store after your mom says no.

— Anonymous

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

— Richard Doll

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

— Nikola Tesla

My nan and grandad looked after us when I was young while my parents worked, and most of my childhood memories are…

— Frankie Bridge

“...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp,…

— Catherine Austen