Childhood Quotes · Page 79

“I don't have anything to give you, except to show you a way to better yourself.”

— Kien Nguyen

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel…

— Nadia Murad

I miss the good old days, where the only thing you had to worry about was if you got your juice box…

— Anonymous

Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

— C.J. Sansom

Everyone has that scary nightmare from your childhood that you still remember...

— Anonymous

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

— Rachel Dratch

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love…

— Sean Scully

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please…

— Roald Dahl

I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this…

— Dermot Mulroney

People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was…

— Bryce Harper

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room…

— Jessie J

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I…

— Maeve Binchy

Our state will show the nation how we can end childhood poverty through a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit…

— Wes Moore

Some people will say I'm an arrogant person, but my childhood was different. Most of my childhood was busy with work and…

— Alex Pereira

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is…

— Barry Privett

I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition.…

— Seanan McGuire

I was always fascinated by speed... My father was always an enthusiast and once I found a passion in racing, I had…

— Christian Horner

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start…

— C. Sommerville

I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people…

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon,"…

— George R.R. Martin

“[Calvin's Mom is driving him somewhere.] CALVIN: Mom, can I drive on the way back? CALVIN'S MOM: Of course not, Calvin. CALVIN:…

— Bill Watterson

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive…

— Rachel McAdams

When I was little I used to say a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, ELEMENO p..

— Anonymous

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

— Rosanna Arquette

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire…

— Stacy Schiff

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I have been regularly confronted with racism, very regularly, and since my earliest childhood.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

— Anne Sexton

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

When you're watching a cartoon and you understand the dirty joke that you never understood as a kid.

— Anonymous

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.

— Ritika Singh

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

— Tayeb Salih

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is…

— James Joyce

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

— Shannon Hale

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

— Thomas Nagel

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

— Frank McCourt

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

— Carol Ann Duffy