Childhood Quotes · Page 66

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

— James Gunn

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

— Nadya Suleman

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read…

— Priyadarshan

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

— Seth MacFarlane

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

— Amanda Harlech

Some things that happen to you in childhood you never forget. You don't forget how people treated you or your parents.

— Cedella Marley

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

— Peter Diamandis

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

— Rachel Cusk

My childhood was a mix of ballet classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an…

— Jo Swinson

Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely…

— John Masefield

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood…

— Gail Carson Levine

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],…

— Ben Stiller

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so…

— Shakira

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody…

— Sylvia Plath

It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through…

— Christina Ricci

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be…

— C.S. Lewis

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds…

— John Steinbeck

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one…

— Danilo Kis

“I have heard it said that a happy childhood is a curse, because what follows can never measure up. All I can…

— Deborah Lawrenson

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot…

— Rebecca Stead

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one…

— Paul O'Grady

I miss my childhood, no homework, no wake up early, no exam, no stress, no problems in life

— Patience

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

— El-P

10-year-old girls crying because they broke up with their boyfriends. When I was 10 I cried when I missed the morning cartoons.

— Anonymous

I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge.

— Anonymous

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

— Lev Grossman

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

I was just a machine, training with my father... I didn't have a childhood; obviously, that took its toll.

— Bernard Tomic

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

— Sussanne Khan

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

— Miranda Richardson

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

— Stephen King

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

— Kurt Vile

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin