Childhood Quotes · Page 64

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

— Anonymous

Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.

— Lisa Lutz

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.

— Anonymous

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

— ASAP Rocky

As I talked to our team, we are going to believe that Eric is going to walk onto that field again.

— Greg Schiano

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

— Sara Canning

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

— Anonymous

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

— John Whaite

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the…

— Catharine Beecher

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country.…

— Roger Daltrey

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood…

— Edmund Burke

The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother - an…

— Lynne Doughtie

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the…

— Dennis Potter

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot…

— Andre Maurois

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory…

— Selma Fraiberg

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint…

— Anonymous

You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger…

— Baron Vaughn

“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand…

— Gillian Flynn

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound…

— Jon Tenney

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the…

— Benny Goodman

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

— Mariella Frostrup

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

— Neil Postman

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

— Jennifer Aniston

A big part of my childhood was being surrounded by friends and family.

— Noah Kahan

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

— Tom Stoppard

I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

When I was a kid, I wanted to be older but now all I want is to go back to my childhood.

— Anmol Andore

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

— Michael Giacchino

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.

— Geeta Phogat

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

— Robert Fulghum

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

— Maria Montessori

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

— Gary Oldman

I spent 90 percent of my childhood playing SNES and N64, and my favorite games were the ones packed with secrets.

— Alex Hirsch