Childhood Quotes · Page 82

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

— Carol Ann Duffy

One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is…

— Jeannette Walls

We should not be told what to do. We are being told since our childhood about things that we should do and…

— Sanjay Mishra

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

— Dan Simmons

At some point we've all pretended to inject ourselves with our mechanical pencil.

— Anonymous

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that…

— Orson Scott Card

“Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.”

— Debra Dean

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

— Roger Moore

As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't…

— Amy Hill

“You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do…

— Anonymous

I was born in Delhi, have stayed and roamed the world, but had a tough childhood and career path. Only my mom…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of…

— Mike Pence

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking…

— Charlie Sheen

“It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything…

— Karen Thompson Walker

My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes…

— Curtis Stone

I belong to this family: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family. Since my childhood I have always wanted to sing and learn music.…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

“It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted…

— Pat Conroy

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the…

— Jenny Saville

“The upbringing based on criticizing the wrong and rejecting it since childhood is considered to be one of the factors that support…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

The biggest piece is my family... From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship…

— Zoya Akhtar

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the…

— Katherine Dunn

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted…

— Ravi Zacharias

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've…

— Zoe Quinn

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of…

— Daniel Handler

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

— Sonia Braga

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do…

— Ru Freeman

Looking at old pictures & noticing how lame you were when you were younger.

— Anonymous

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

— Martin Compston

I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.

— R. Madhavan

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

— Ray Charles

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

— Bruno Tonioli

“No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well…

— James P. Krehbiel

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

— Neal Cassady

Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills.

— Vidyasagar

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;

— Jan Struther

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

— David A. Stewart

I just put my anger and resentment into basketball. Even the stuff from my childhood.

— Gilbert Arenas

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

— Malala Yousafzai

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

— Barbara Kingsolver