Childhood Quotes · Page 46

Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.

— Lee Ranaldo

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'

— Alex Hirsch

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

— Heather O'Neill

We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.

— Ross Duffer

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

— Sarah Hyland

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

— Candace Wheeler

When I was kid, werewolves and vampires were scary. Now everyone wants to date them.

— Anonymous

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

— David Gest

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in…

— Andre Leon Talley

The things I talk about with childhood friends are inevitably different from the things I talk about with friends who are the…

— Park Hyung-sik

“I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my…

— John Clare

In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions…

— James Henry Breasted

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the…

— Charles Lamb

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every…

— Rob Corddry

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence…

— Andy Muschietti

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I…

— Grandma Moses

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through…

— Mindy Kaling

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was…

— Zach Braff

“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the…

— Eavan Boland

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was…

— Annie Dillard

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that…

— Anne Lamott

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We…

— Bell Hooks

Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry,…

— Pamela Druckerman

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

— Tom Vilsack

Having spent my childhood and teenage in London, it gave me a western orientation of mind.

— Simi Garewal

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

— Louise Hay

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

— Nadya Suleman

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

— James Gunn

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

I love the idea of my daughter looking back at her childhood and growing up with a dog.

— Erika Christensen

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad…

— Marisol Nichols

A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.

— Laura Schlessinger

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

— David Lynch

You're a true 90's kid if you've ever heard someone say, 'Get off the phone, I need to use the internet.'

— Anonymous

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

— Rachel Cusk

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

— Peter Diamandis

Some things that happen to you in childhood you never forget. You don't forget how people treated you or your parents.

— Cedella Marley

I miss my childhood, no homework, no wake up early, no exam, no stress, no problems in life

— Patience