Childhood Quotes · Page 56

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

— Dana Spiotta

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I spent a lot of my childhood sat on a wall thinking, waiting for my mum to pick me up.

— Russell Howard

“...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...”

— John Geddes

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My childhood was spent in a typical Mumbai chawl at Girgaum and I studied at the nearby St. Sebastian School.

— Jeetendra

I'm lucky to have very close friends that I've had since childhood.

— Kevin Magnussen

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as…

— Henning Mankell

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum…

— Rory Bremner

Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products…

— Alissa Quart

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same…

— Adam Savage

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem…

— Charles Dickens

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

I love holi. Since childhood I have been such a holi fan, but obviously as we grow a little matured you understand…

— Rahul Vaidya

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection…

— Alissa Quart

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama…

— Michelle Obama

In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system.…

— Dalai Lama

It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5…

— Robert Fulghum

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one…

— Jeff Buckley

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly…

— Claire Messud

Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest…

— Stella Chess

“Childhood is a time for pretending and trying on maturity to see if it fits or hangs baggy, tastes good or bitter,…

— Erma Bombeck

“Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos,…

— Clifford Stoll

I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.

— Tara Stiles

I love Celia Cruz - she was also a huge part of my childhood. She's an iconic woman.

— Lauren Jauregui

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,

— Maurice Sendak

Growing up, I was lucky. My dad always came home. I got a regular childhood.

— Kyle Schwarber

When we used to live in a chawl during our childhood, we would play Holi with water balloons.

— Rakhi Sawant

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will…

— Yukio Mishima

I spent a lot of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long…

— Hilaria Baldwin

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

— Simon Hoggart

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

— Aminatta Forna

Enjoying phuljharis is the first thing that I can think of from my childhood Diwali days.

— Ananya Panday

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

— Charley Pride

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

— Jean Piaget

I remember, as a federal prosecutor myself, it's only a 3-year appointment, and they interviewed my childhood neighbors.

— Sunny Hostin

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

— Anonymous