Childhood Quotes · Page 60

“My mother would say, 'Why are you always playing alone?' And I would say, 'I'm not playin', Ma. I'm fuckin' serious!”

— George Carlin

Sisters share the scent and smells--the feel of a common childhood.

— Pam Brown

Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.

— Adam F. Goldberg

“The beauty of life is best expressed by an innocent smile of a child.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

I remember as kid drinking out of the garden hose, now I pay for bottled water..

— JREYES

It's called 'Odd Boy Out' because as I was writing it I realized I was a bit of an oddity as a…

— Gyles Brandreth

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still…

— Sara Evans

“Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very…

— Virginia Woolf

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know,…

— Goapele

If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my…

— Zoe Kazan

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that…

— Sophie Swetchine

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of…

— Randy Pausch

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control…

— RuPaul

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah,…

— Mark Doty

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or…

— Boris Johnson

I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I…

— Michael Landon, Jr

“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin…

— Michael Chabon

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought…

— Benji Madden

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have…

— Haley Barbour

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So,…

— Jonathan Groff

“Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out…

— Erin McCarthy

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it…

— Tom Stoppard

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

— Larry the Cable Guy

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

— Jane Goldman

The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.”

— Gene Wolfe

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

— Carol Shields

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a…

— Taylor Momsen

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

— Sandra Bullock

Cherish each moment with your children for you can never bring back their childhood.

— Anonymous

“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

— Jason Butler Harner

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

— Isabella Bird

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

— Jose Rizal

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

— Beau Mirchoff

“If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.”

— Thomas Hardy

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did…

— Tre Cool

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

— Robin Quivers