Childhood Quotes · Page 41

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

— Will Forte

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

— Joan Crawford

The scent that reminds me most of my childhood is pine because Colorado has a lot of evergreen pine trees.

— Taylor Hill

“The toughest habits to break are the ones we take with us from childhood.”

— Charles F. Glassman

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

— Jackie Evancho

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

— Mariska Hargitay

“...this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.”

— Witold Gombrowicz

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

— Chris Patten

But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty…

— Bret Harte

“I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life…

— Nick Hornby

As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been…

— Jill Lepore

Playfulness. We've baked Mallomars and Rice Krispies treats, made milkshakes, and even built a macaron cake in the shape of a Christmas…

— David Castle

I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly…

— Max Reinhardt

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood…

— Tomie dePaola

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had…

— Frederick Lenz

“Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The principal difference between childhood and the stages of life into which it invariably dissolves is that as children we occupy a…

— Alastair Reid

When I put on my first Man Utd training kit, it felt enormous in a way that was really special in kind…

— Tobin Heath

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's…

— Sasha Grey

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I looked out the window and saw the street and railroad tracks, the woods beyond. Beyond the woods, the county of which…

— Kevin Powers

I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a…

— Thomas Keller

“While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the…

— Willa Cather

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

— Roseanne Barr

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

— Pulkit Samrat

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

— Harold Budd

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

— Tanya R. Liverman

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on,…

— Mary Stewart

“I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen…

— C.S. Lewis

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

— J. K. Rowling

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

— Marguerite Kelly

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

— Tom Sizemore

A high-quality childhood education program has long lasting benefits on our society as a whole.

— Kay Ivey

I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.

— Laurence Fishburne

It is a dream from my childhood: I always wanted to play in the Premier League, which is one of the best…

— Richarlison

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

— Janisse Ray

A Sister Is A Major Part Of Your Childhood That Can Never Be Forgoten

— Mya Doty

My childhood was not great but not that bad either. I've always had a loving and caring mother with me.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

— Darell Hammond