Childhood Quotes · Page 55

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Susan Cheever

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

— Guru Randhawa

I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.

— James Blunt

“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.”

— Wilkie Collins

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

— Urmila Matondkar

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my…

— Goldie

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

— Charles Busch

That mind-blowing moment when you realize chores were really the crap your parents didnt want to do.

— Anonymous

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know,…

— Sydney Pollack

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our…

— Robert Crais

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got…

— Jessica Raine

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd…

— Alton Brown

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an…

— Orlando Bloom

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of…

— Rose Leslie

“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and…

— Roman Payne

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Like any parent, they've been extremely supportive of my racing throughout my childhood. I mean, my mom says that she didn't want…

— Kyle Larson

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s…

— Neil Gaiman

a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into…

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the…

— Leonard Cohen

“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness,…

— Neena H. Brar

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -…

— Alaina Huffman

“Humans never outgrow their need to connect with others, nor should they, but mature, truly individual people are not controlled by these…

— Gabor Maté

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

— Harry Connick, Jr

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood,’

— Paul Feig

“Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood! @ viorel muha”

— Viorel Muha

“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she…

— Diane Grifith

“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

— Beatrix Potter

Oh , that was then childhood memory , you don't forget that but you move on ,

— Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with…

— Rodney Dangerfield

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life…

— Ai Weiwei

My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.

— Rey Mysterio

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

— Conor Oberst

In my childhood, we didn't dress up a whole lot. It was very casual.

— Danielle Colby

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in…

— Paulo Coelho

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

— Drew Pinsky

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

— Ben Okri

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

— Susie Bright