Childhood Quotes · Page 67

We have ALL waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because theyre taking too long to come out...

— Anonymous

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

— Laura Schlessinger

When I was little, I used to sing in the shower. Now? I make life decisions in there.

— Obviously Me :p

I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.

— Alexander Gilkes

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

— Alex Hirsch

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

— John Edward Christopher Hill

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter…

— Michael Rosen

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,…

— Seth Berkley

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you…

— Spike Jonze

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice…

— Martin Seligman

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

Mera Naam Joker' is really special to me. A girl, who had idolised Raj Kapoor since her childhood, was actually working with…

— Simi Garewal

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was…

— Michael Morpurgo

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we…

— Ariel Sharon

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could…

— Andrew Davidson

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people…

— Salman Rushdie

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder…

— Harold Brodkey

“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders ……

— Harry Leslie Smith

“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,…

— Ocean Vuong

I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my…

— Murray Bookchin

“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in…

— Leo Tolstoy

I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and…

— Gloria Steinem

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

— Lee Ranaldo

When I was kid, werewolves and vampires were scary. Now everyone wants to date them.

— Anonymous

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

— Sarah Hyland

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

— Ross Duffer

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

— Louise Hay

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

— David Gest

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

— Tom Vilsack

Having spent my childhood and teenage in London, it gave me a western orientation of mind.

— Simi Garewal

I spent many years of my childhood in Wyoming County and my roots are deep there.

— Jim Justice

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

— Bill Burr

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

— Rebecca Hall

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

— Darren Hardy