Childhood Quotes · Page 66

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

— Shan Sa

“I put it aside, buried it with all the other small shames and mortifications of my childhood.”

— Robin LaFevers

I felt so miserable for my whole childhood. All my parents could do was try their best.

— Chappell Roan

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

— Bill Bryson

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

— Seanan McGuire

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is…

— Pam Brown

If you were born in the 90's The best P.E. lessons involved a rainbow colored parachute...

— Brandon Martin

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

— John Rocha

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“their suburbia house in Brentwood" was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was…

— Joan Didion

My mother was really beautiful, and I had to deal with her being objectified my entire childhood. But she also had this…

— Adrianne Lenker

Always in my house, I have almonds, hummus, Triscuits, and cheddar cheese. It takes me back to childhood. My go-to meal would…

— Anne Burrell

Missouri families deserve the best early childhood system our state can provide. This is also a critical area of workforce development for…

— Mike Parson

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things…

— Anonymous

To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think…

— RaMell Ross

I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences…

— Andrew W.K

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I…

— Neil Gaiman

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting…

— Siri Hustvedt

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing…

— Judith Viorst

Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we…

— Scoot McNairy

“It’s not that I want children to fall into the pond per se, though I can’t really see what harm it would…

— Claire-Louise Bennett

“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and…

— R. M. Ballantyne

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school…

— Seth MacFarlane

The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist…

— Howard Lyman

As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different…

— Amanda Schull

“When did a person begin to emerge from that fantastical sea of childhood onto the dry land of adult existence?”

— Erin Hart

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

— Philippa Pearce

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I say parenting is like maths sum. You take one step, and your child takes another.

— Paritoshik Sharma

In 'Gossip Girl,' I was far too judgmental of everything that was happening, because I was young.

— Penn Badgley

To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were…

— Lily King

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

— Adam Sandler

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

— Maya Lin

In my childhood, I always played as Barcelona on the PlayStation.

— Marco Reus

We both [wuth Harry Elfont] had those sort of misfit childhoods.

— Deborah Kaplan

I miss the days when all it took to make me feel better was my teddy bear.

— Anonymous

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

— Kailash Satyarthi

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

— Mason Cooley

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

— Beverly Cleary

Life was much simpler when my biggest dilemma in life was deciding what Pop-Tart to eat for breakfast.

— Anonymous