Childhood Quotes · Page 61

“Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.”

— Liane Moriarty

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

— Cynthia Ozick

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

— Hunx

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

— Sonakshi Sinha

“Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...”

— Asa Don Brown

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

— John Knoll

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

— Yvonne Strahovski

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal…

— Carol Anshaw

“Most kids don't give a hoot in hell for brains; they go a penny a pound, and the kid with the high…

— Stephen King

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never…

— Francesca Lia Block

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Quality educational care grows resilient children, provides support for working families and stability for employers, makes Georgia more competitive, and invests in…

— Stacey Abrams

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed…

— Anthony Hopkins

“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not…

— G.K. Chesterton

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could…

— Shirley Jackson

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood…

— Nicholas Kristof

“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,…

— Maile Meloy

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in…

— Judy Blume

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven…

— Ann Patchett

Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'…

— Adyashanti

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

— Stephen King

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

— Eleanor Porter

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

— Eleanor Farjeon

Elephant Man - the name given to Joseph Merrick - was the moniker that haunted my childhood.

— Adam Pearson

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

— Johnny Carson

“I'm not going to have a husband anyway," said Laura. "I'm going to live by myself in the garage.”

— Margaret Atwood

Stop trying to grow up so fast. Childhood only lasts so long, so savor it.

— Anonymous

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

— LeAnn Rimes

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

— Maeve Binchy

“I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.”

— Kiersten White

If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.

— Astrid Lindgren

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

— Gertrude Stein

“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”

— Annie Ernaux

I miss: My friends. Being happy. The person I used to be. The good times. My childhood. All of the above.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

— Renzo Piano

My childhood was great. We never had much but we were happy. I was a handful, though, and I did some naughty…

— Nigel Benn