Childhood Quotes · Page 49

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

— Vinoba Bhave

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into…

— Gail Godwin

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

— Kurt Vile

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Anonymous

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

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them.…

— Kent Nerburn

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks…

— David Mitchell

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard…

— Robert Vaughn

When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked…

— Lisa Hanawalt

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to…

— Merrill Markoe

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this…

— Audrey Tautou

A childhood favourite that has stayed with me over the years is Kate Winslet. She's an amazing British actress who always delivers…

— Georgina Campbell

That awkward moment when your friend is getting yelled at by their parents and you just sit there awkwardly petting their dog…

— Patience

In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it…

— Rene Denfeld

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To…

— Steve Martin

Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping…

— Barack Obama

Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves…

— Paulo Coelho

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive…

— David Foster Wallace

Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You…

— David Brooks

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been…

— Victor Hugo

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

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

— Laura Schlessinger

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

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— John Edward Christopher Hill

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

— Anonymous

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

— Candace Wheeler

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

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

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

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

— David Gest

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

— Anonymous