Childhood Quotes · Page 42

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

— David Sobel

As a child my family's menu consisted of two things : take it or leave it.

— Buddy Hackett

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare…

— Maurice Sendak

When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.

— Courtney A. Kemp

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

— Sylvie Guillem

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown”

— John Green

I did not have an affectionate childhood, neither of my parents were expressive in that way.

— Ulrika Jonsson

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you…

— Winston Churchill

Early childhood education remains one of the strongest investments we can make in the long-term success of our students and the long-term…

— Abigail Spanberger

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance;…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working…

— Ben Mendelsohn

The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.

— Daniel Snyder

I loved Garry Marshall. The television shows he created in the '80s were the most deeply important entertainment of my childhood.

— Paul F. Tompkins

You don't know what I've been through. The childhood I've had. How much I hate myself. What I do to myself when…

— Anonymous

I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from…

— O. J. Mayo

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to…

— Spike Jonze

I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost…

— Li Lu

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he…

— Tim Burton

“Among the first questions a native mother asks her child in the morning is: what did you dream? When I heard this…

— Dorothee Soelle

We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between 'natural' and 'adopted.'…

— Al Roker

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male…

— Michael Parkinson

But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm…

— Beryl Markham

My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad…

— Ainsley Harriott

Dear Mario, I wasted my childhood trying to save your girlfriend. You owe me.

— Hussein Nishah

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

— Maureen Forrester

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

— Cleo Moore

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

— MO

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

— Dean Koontz

Since childhood, I wanted to be a hero, but now, I want to be an actor.

— Sunny Singh

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

— Richard Linklater

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never…

— Colin Thompson

I mean that's most guys' dream is to play for their childhood team.

— Carson Palmer

Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

— Sonia Orwell

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?”

— Lorna Crozier

“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to…

— Ellen Glasgow