Childhood Quotes · Page 71

In my childhood, I was very fond of western music and dance forms like Hip Hop, Salsa, Tango, etc.

— Koena Mitra

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in…

— Josh Peck

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

— Julian Cope

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

— John Irving

When I was little I would be so entertained on cartoons and now I sleep to them.

— Anonymous

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

— Narendra Modi

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

— Jeremy Denk

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than…

— D.E. Stevenson

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you…

— Mary Karr

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the…

— Sissela Bok

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be…

— George Eliot

I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were…

— Jalen Rose

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running…

— Bill Bailey

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some…

— Mehek Bassi

“Your childhood is in the past, but your current situation is triggering your story and making you feel like you’re back in…

— Michelle Skeen

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if…

— Olga Trujillo

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an…

— Dani Shapiro

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected…

— Lloyd deMause

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a…

— Pablo Picasso

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the…

— LaChanze

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a…

— Will Shetterly

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

— Carol O'Connell

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls.

— Peter Dinklage

From childhood I have played for India. I have represented India. I have always been a proud Indian.

— Jwala Gutta

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

— Wil Wheaton

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

— Carl Lewis

No matter how old I get, I think mooning people will always be hilarious.

— Anonymous

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

— Lou Ferrigno

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

— Juliette Lewis

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

— Samuel Woodworth

I have a special place in my heart for New York City. I spent my early childhood there before moving to Los…

— Kathy Hilton

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

— Kailash Satyarthi

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

— Rian Johnson

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

— Rachel Simmons

“I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.”

— Jeff VanderMeer