Childhood Quotes · Page 64

“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.”

— P. Pra. Sandhyaya

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

— John Bingham

You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet

— Janet Evanovich

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

“Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.”

— Anthony Liccione

The way I dealt with things in the past with my exes was by screaming and that was not a good way…

— Megan McKenna

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

— Larry David

“You barely know me? Why, because you don’t know my favorite color? Because you don’t know about my childhood? Fuck that. The…

— Penelope Bloom

“No person’s childhood gives him or her a perpetual moral get-out-of-jail-free card—not Lindsay, not Aunt Wee, not me, and not Mom.”

— J.D. Vance

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so…

— Giada De Laurentiis

When you think about all the childhood memories youve had paying kiss and chase in grade 2 and spin the bottle at…

— Talyiah

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to…

— Lee Unkrich

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you…

— Eileen Myles

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping…

— Mark Twain

I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a…

— Vicky McClure

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So,…

— Jonathan Groff

“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,…

— Maile Meloy

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood…

— Nicholas Kristof

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not…

— G.K. Chesterton

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could…

— Shirley Jackson

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in…

— Judy Blume

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven…

— Ann Patchett

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

— Liya Kebede

At childhood We cry loudly to get what we like But,When we grown up, We cry silently to forget what we like..!That's…

— Tinku Razoria

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

— Greg Mortenson

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

“The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.”

— J Anderson Coats

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at…

— Keisha Castle-Hughes

“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.”

— Shogo Oketani

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

— Robert Breault

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

— Vera Nazarian

“Thank you! …for sharing your childhood with me so I could experience the all joys that were missing in mine”

— Ginny Toole

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

— Samin Nosrat

I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

— Eavan Boland

When I was a kid, I used to think that the moon is following our car everywhere.

— Michael Angelo De Leon