Childhood Quotes · Page 69

“Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.”

— Heather O'Neill

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

— Tom Noddy

He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love…

— Drew McIntyre

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

— Albert Einstein

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

— Ishmael Beah

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

— Homer

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

— Aleatha Romig

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny,…

— Jon Ronson

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional…

— Alice Miller

Your whole childhood it's A's and Giants, I want to play for the A's or Giants when I grow up. You just…

— Marcus Semien

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I had the world's greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how…

— Ernie Johnson Jr

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then…

— Elizabeth Thornton

Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…

— Jonathan Kozol

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to…

— Albert Einstein

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster…

— James Hillman

Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

“FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired…

— Leontine R. Young

“The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities…

— Bethenny Frankel

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that…

— Edmund White

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

— Elie Wiesel

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

— John Betjeman

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

— Saqib Saleem

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

— Corey Feldman

George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.

— Gary Payton

Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

— Corey Stoll

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

— Giacomo Leopardi

I had a very wonderful growing up. I was surrounded by loving people.

— Annie Murphy

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

“The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

— Flannery O'Connor

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

— Thomas Gray

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

— Anonymous

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

— Novalis

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good…

— Ingrid Pitt