Childhood Quotes · Page 35

“The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.”

— Aliki

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

— Louise Glück

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

— Josh Peck

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

— Anonymous

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

— Koena Mitra

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

— Wil Wheaton

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

— Jwala Gutta

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

— Carol O'Connell

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick…

— Rosellen Brown

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management…

— Bill Vaughan

Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and…

— Rosamond Lehmann

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and…

— Sharon Salzberg

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity…

— Alice Munro

My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of…

— William H. Gass

The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional…

— George Monbiot

I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to…

— Angie Dickinson

“Her eyes had to adjust to the night sky. She walked away from the house, out of the spill of electric light,…

— Don DeLillo

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill…

— Anonymous

The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being…

— Kurt Braunohler

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any…

— Isabella Bird

“The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were…

— Daphne du Maurier

I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not.…

— Nicholas Sparks

Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative…

— Anonymous

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

— Peter Dinklage

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Carl Lewis

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

— Melissa Harris-Perry

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

— Alessandra Ambrosio

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

— Jeff VanderMeer

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

— Rachel Simmons

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

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

— Samuel Woodworth

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

— Paul Auster

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

— Ice Cube