Childhood Quotes · Page 71

“The best friends are made in childhood when we have no ulterior motives.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

— Thomas Gray

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

— Mark Ronson

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

— Ice Cube

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

— Paul Auster

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,

— Jhumpa Lahiri

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

— George Sand

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the…

— Dennis Potter

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],…

— Ben Stiller

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood…

— Gail Carson Levine

My childhood was a mix of ballet classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an…

— Jo Swinson

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by…

— Terry Pratchett

Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely…

— John Masefield

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you…

— Spike Jonze

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

“People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through…

— Sylvia Kristel

Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I…

— Adam Beach

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who…

— James Hillman

“I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet…

— Robertson Davies

You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an…

— Jennifer Rardin

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately…

— George F. Kennan

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the…

— Louis Auchincloss

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be…

— George Lakoff

“We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.”

— Italo Calvino

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

— Simon Callow

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

— Teyonah Parris

I've had a dead childhood because I was working so much that I wanted to take an early retirement.

— Rimi Sen

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

— Jennifer Egan

Drowned in the sea of responsiblities, a man is compelled to forget everything but his childhood.Mak_786

— Mak_786

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

— Tina Yothers

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

— Jimmy Barnes

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

— Paul Vallas

“I lost something magical in the process of growing up – my disillusionment.”

— Bauvard

When you used to sleep with all of your stuffed animals as a child so none of them would be jealous!

— Anonymous

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

— Wendy Liebman