Childhood Quotes · Page 45

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

— Neil Postman

When I started to use fewer ingredients in my cooking, I was reminded of the uncomplicated flavours of my childhood.

— John Whaite

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

— Mariella Frostrup

A big part of my childhood was being surrounded by friends and family.

— Noah Kahan

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

— Jennifer Aniston

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

— Sara Canning

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

— Anonymous

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

— Don DeLillo

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the…

— Prunella Scales

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which…

— John Caudwell

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or…

— Anne Lamott

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to…

— George Singleton

“In theory, and in law, childhood and adolescence last up until the age of eighteen. I don't think that's true; lots of…

— Albert Espinosa

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare…

— Natalia Vodianova

You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I…

— Jim Root

“And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the…

— Daniel Keyes

Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult…

— Suleika Jaouad

“I wish we could start over. I wish we were meeting for the first time. Clean slate.’ Haley considers this. It’s such…

— Maria Padian

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with…

— Maurice Sendak

Our development as a person is greatly affected by the people around us during our childhood. You turn out to be who…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising…

— Virginia Postrel

For me, there's a thing that happens, even with the heat in Charleston, where there's a, I don't know, there's just an…

— Edi Patterson

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a…

— Junot Diaz

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances…

— Michael Marmot

When I was a kid, I wanted to be older but now all I want is to go back to my childhood.

— Anmol Andore

I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on…

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

— Tom Stoppard

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

— Robert Fulghum

I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.

— Gary Oldman

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

— Maria Montessori

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

— Michael Giacchino

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

— James Hillman

We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.

— Geeta Phogat

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

— Laura Schlessinger

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I was a rather tubby youngster, which was a complete surprise to my family.

— Alexander Gilkes

When I was little, I used to sing in the shower. Now? I make life decisions in there.

— Obviously Me :p

We have ALL waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because theyre taking too long to come out...

— Anonymous

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

— John Edward Christopher Hill