Childhood Quotes · Page 40

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

— Richard Zera

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

— Maria Montessori

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.

— Gillian Flynn

I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.

— James Blunt

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Susan Cheever

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason…

— Amitabh Bachchan

My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced…

— Vera Rubin

I came from a family of scientists. My father is a microbiologist and my grandfather is an organic chemist. I had a…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood…

— Abel Korzeniowski

As a player, oftentimes you don't really take the time to pause and realize how blessed you are to be living out…

— Matthew Slater

“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in…

— Bridget Asher

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be…

— Joseph Campbell

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender.…

— Orson Scott Card

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on…

— Josephine Tey

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the…

— John Berger

“There are only two things that determine whether you're old enough to do something -- whether you understand what the hell you're…

— Midnight Blue

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories…

— Clint Smith

A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you…

— Anne Lamott

Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood,…

— David Moles

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on…

— David Mixner

Life was so much easier when your clothes didnt match and boys had cooties.

— Anonymous

I felt like I got what I wanted out of my childhood. The good really outweighs the bad.

— Ruel

That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

— Harry Connick, Jr

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’

— Paul Feig

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my…

— Goldie

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.”

— Wilkie Collins

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

— Urmila Matondkar

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

— Beatrix Potter

“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood! @ viorel muha”

— Viorel Muha

“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she…

— Diane Grifith

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

— Emily Dickinson

At childhood we cry loudly to get what we like but now when we grown up , we cry silently to forget…

— Anonymous

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were…

— Mitch Albom