Childhood Quotes · Page 76

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up…

— Anonymous

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

— Ross MacDonald

In my childhood, we had only one toilet. It was my dream then to have a good bathroom where you can have…

— Tanikella Bharani

There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

— Catherine Taylor

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

— Rick Bayan

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

— Berkeley Breathed

“Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.”

— Tedd Tripp

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I…

— Charles Forsman

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer.…

— Paul Feig

I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of…

— M. J. Ryan

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like…

— Matt Dillon

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to…

— Lydia Sigourney

I had this childhood dream that I wanted to be a doctor, but I came from a neighborhood and an environment where…

— Leana S. Wen

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've…

— John Legend

“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.…

— Clive Barker

Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite…

— Toby Jones

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why…

— Clint Eastwood

If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable,…

— Russell Crowe

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate…

— Roger Ross Williams

My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I…

— Bill Crow

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

A rainbow every morning who would pause to look at? The wonderful which comes often or is plentifully about us is soon…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

I love the camera and I guess it's because it's been an integral part of my childhood.

— Sunny Singh

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

— Daniel Snyder

“I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles…

— Gabe A. Lopez

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

— Amit Kalantri

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

— Drew Pinsky

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

— Alain de Botton

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

— Frances Mayes

In childhood we cry loudly to get what we like, but when grown up we cry silently to forget what we like.

— Anonymous

“The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.”

— Eileen Kennedy-Moore

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

I was a complete wreck as a child, emotionally unstable, excessively prideful.

— Robert Vaughn

You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.

— Rain Dove

I miss the days when shouting 'Not it!' was an effective way of getting out of things you didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

— Jane Wiedlin

“I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.”

— Patti Larsen

I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.

— Farhan Akhtar