Childhood Quotes · Page 72

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

— Jonathan Ames

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

— Joseph Murray

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

— Karen White

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

— Carrie Brownstein

I did work and bought all my own clothes and shoes since I was 9 years old. That's not a typical American…

— Rachel Dolezal

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

— Robert Downey Jr

The intensity with which a person resists discussing their childhood is first evidence of how painful it was.

— Anonymous

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

— Mason Cooley

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice…

— Martin Seligman

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody…

— Sylvia Plath

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,…

— Seth Berkley

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter…

— Michael Rosen

It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through…

— Christina Ricci

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so…

— Shakira

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else…

— Francesca Marciano

I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we…

— Ayelet Waldman

“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,…

— Katherine Dunn

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so…

— Josephine Hart

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is…

— T. S. Eliot

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in…

— Peace Pilgrim

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired…

— Leontine R. Young

“The thing about childhood noise is that if you let it take over, it can obliterate your true nature. The best qualities…

— Bethenny Frankel

Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the…

— Rudolfo Anaya

“One day he would finish the job of dying he'd begun in childhood/”

— Gregory Maguire

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

— Michael Gruber

Pouring soda into the cap when you were younger and acting like you were taking shots.

— Anonymous

“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most”

— Savannah Brown

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

— Bill Watterson

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

— Robert Webb

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

— Bretman Rock

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

— Elena Roger

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still…

— Jonathan Majors

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

“I miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ...”

— C.J. Heck

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

— Philip Roth

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

— Mindy Kaling

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

— Lindsey Vonn