Childhood Quotes · Page 53

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

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

— Maureen Forrester

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

— John Green

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

— Hussein Nishah

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

— Ulrika Jonsson

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes…

— Zach Anner

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be…

— Marek Edelman

I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could…

— James William Middleton

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in…

— Victor Hugo

I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an…

— Hale Appleman

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm.…

— Romola Garai

“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to…

— Stephen King

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I'm very, very specific about sneakers. I've always been a fan. It's not just certain brands, it's also the model of the…

— Hasan Minhaj

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged…

— Valorie Curry

The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about…

— Dom Thomas

All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater…

— Marya Hornbacher

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early…

— Paul Auster

Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl…

— Zlata Filipović

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.…

— Louis Sullivan

“And yet often when I was out in the park or the woods, say, with my own little girls, I'd seen something…

— John E. Douglas

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

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

— Carson Palmer

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

— Colin Thompson

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

— Richard Linklater

“Repetition is the proof of sincerity. Saying what you mean is important. It's a turning point.”

— Avi

“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.”

— Robert Goolrick

“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

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

— Lorna Crozier

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

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

— Joan Crawford

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were…

— Mitch Albom

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

— Will Forte