Childhood Quotes · Page 63

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

— Rik Mayall

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

— Joyce Maynard

My childhood was full of shocks and alarums, and I had to work a long time to make a life that pleases…

— Naomi Alderman

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

— Thomas Middleditch

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

— Paula Cole

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

— Hugh Hefner

I've lived in Chennai from childhood. But, honestly, I didn't know the Royapuram side at all.

— Sudha Kongara

I've been getting calls from childhood friends who left the country and who tell me they finally have hope that they will…

— Juan Guaido

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less.…

— Jacqueline Cochran

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is…

— Joe Rigney

I miss being a kid. No one cared how you dressed, we were all friends, and you could be yourself. When did…

— Anonymous

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan…

— Tom Cruise

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

— William Shakespeare

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well…

— James Nesbitt

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting…

— Siri Hustvedt

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I…

— Neil Gaiman

“It’s not that I want children to fall into the pond per se, though I can’t really see what harm it would…

— Claire-Louise Bennett

Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we…

— Scoot McNairy

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only…

— Olga Kurylenko

Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to…

— J. B. Pritzker

Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals,…

— Dave Barry

I'm a huge fan of Tupac. I'm from Chicago and his music helped me kind of get through that phase of my…

— Cory Hardrict

Mahanati' starts its narration from Savithri garu's childhood. And it is wrapped up with her passing away.

— Nag Ashwin

“There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.”

— Martin Schuster

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

We learn from childhood how to speak but it takes whole life to learn what to speak.

— Anonymous

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

— Fernando Pessoa

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

— Lauren Bacall

I miss the old days where if you liked someone, all you had to do was chase them around the playground.

— Anonymous

“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.”

— J.D. Salinger

It wasn't the best childhood, but I did my best to make it good on my end... I didn't let it pull…

— Logic

“Thank you! …for sharing your childhood with me so I could experience the all joys that were missing in mine”

— Ginny Toole

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

— Vera Nazarian

“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

When I was a kid, I used to think that the moon is following our car everywhere.

— Michael Angelo De Leon

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

— Eavan Boland

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

— Samin Nosrat

We had an enormous rhubarb patch at home and my mother forced me to eat that stuff without any sugar for most…

— Hugh Dennis