Childhood Quotes · Page 68

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

— Jimmy Barnes

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

— Agatha Christie

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked…

— Roger Federer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

— Dave Pelzer

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

— Josh Lucas

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

— Harlan Ellison

I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

— Pam Ferris

I've been getting calls from childhood friends who left the country and who tell me they finally have hope that they will…

— Juan Guaido

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

— William Shakespeare

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan…

— Tom Cruise

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is…

— Joe Rigney

I miss being a kid. No one cared how you dressed, we were all friends, and you could be yourself. When did…

— Anonymous

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less.…

— Jacqueline Cochran

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat,…

— Brian Weiss

In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts…

— George Groves

That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of…

— Leroy Chiao

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If…

— Anne Brontë

My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place…

— LeBron James

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger,…

— Maurice Sendak

Anyone remember Hip-Hop and the 90s? When a person could sit on his porch drinking Gin & Juice while Killing Me Softly…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new…

— John Banville

I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding…

— David Cameron

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

— Shania Twain

Time goes by, but marbles is one of those simple kids games that boys hardly forget how to play.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

I don't know why, but rain comes into my head the minute I think of my childhood.

— Dhanush

I spent my whole childhood, my college years, thinking that I was going to be a doctor.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

“Is any childhood as terrible or as wonderful as we remember it to be?”

— Monique Martin

“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.

— King Diamond

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.”

— Stefan Zweig

When I was a kid, I hated going to bed. Now I cherish every hour of sleep.

— Anonymous

I remember when I was a kid, I went on the computer just to use Paint.

— Anonymous

“I got through my childhood in a delirium of literary exaltations.”

— Susan Sontag

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

— Michael Jackson

“Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

— Tina Yothers