Childhood Quotes · Page 80

Schools [are]...institutions monopolizing the daytimes of childhood.

— John Taylor Gatto

For me, games against Arsenal are always beautiful because in my childhood they were my favourite team.

— David Alaba

“Maybe it was the state of childhood to not question and fear everything, it’d been so long, Pete couldn’t remember.”

— Smith Henderson

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. from Nostos.”

— Louise Gluck

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

— Prunella Scales

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

— Mary Pipher

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

— Vanessa Paradis

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad.…

— Tracy Letts

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal…

— Hector Elizondo

The sad part is that every time people see me, they think either I have had a bad childhood or I'm schizophrenic.…

— Kunal Kapoor

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed…

— Jean Cocteau

I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world…

— Paulo Coelho

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same…

— Dorothy Parker

I sincerely miss being a kid and being the first one up, watching Saturday morning cartoons with a bowl of cinnamon toast…

— Anonymous

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim…

— Salman Rushdie

I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood!…

— Amy Chua

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had…

— Andrea Navedo

“We were all grinning and everyone had their eyes open for once. Ian must have been moving - his hand was blurred.…

— Inga Simpson

Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms…

— Cilla Black

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Snow is...a beautiful reminder of life and all its quirks. It makes me pause. Think. Stay still. Even my mind takes the…

— R.B. O'Brien

“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead…

— Robert R. McCammon

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so…

— Samuel Rogers

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

— Gaby Hoffmann

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

We are taught in childhood,, lie is a big sin,, We realize that being young, was the biggest lie,, that was taught…

— Mak_786

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

— George Michael

Everyday it just feels like my childhood memories are slowly fading away.

— Anonymous

When I was little I faked being asleep, so I would be carried to bed.

— Anonymous

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced…

— Patrick Modiano

Since my childhood, I have been watching Telugu films. It was always my dream to make it big here.

— Priyamani

“by the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age way too soon our childhoods were swept away”

— Roo Bardookie

As a young man, I craved fame. I was trying to fix holes in my soul that were there from childhood.

— Rodney Crowell

“Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.”

— Linda McCarriston

Right from childhood we are trained into believing what is right and what is wrong. We seldom question.

— Sanjay Mishra

“We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.”

— Vadim Babenko

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

— James M. Barrie