Childhood Quotes · Page 74

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. . .

— Anonymous

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

— Orson Scott Card

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on…

— Hilary Hahn

“Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks," chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.”

— Beverly Cleary

When I was young, and it was raining, I used to watch two drops of water roll down the window and pretend…

— Brookelle Willcox

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

— Giacomo Leopardi

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.

— Sarah Waters

“We should all have a tree in our childhood...a tree one might explore, a tree from which one might learn how to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people…

— Laura Schlessinger

My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were…

— Ainsley Harriott

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood?…

— Gaston Bachelard

I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High…

— Jim Breuer

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your…

— Kevin Macdonald

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who…

— George Eliot

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to…

— Eva Figes

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so…

— Minnie Pearl

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“Your childhood is in the past, but your current situation is triggering your story and making you feel like you’re back in…

— Michelle Skeen

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the…

— Sally Mann

I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why…

— Rob Schneider

When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an…

— Dani Shapiro

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a…

— Pablo Picasso

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected…

— Lloyd deMause

Since my childhood, I have seen 'Nagina,' 'Chalbaaz' and 'Mr. India' so many times.

— Rupali Ganguly

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

— Andrew Wiles

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

— Gaston Bachelard

Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up...what the hell were we thinking?

— Keren Zhims

I have been following the Dakar since childhood. I always wanted to do it.

— Andre Villas-Boas

The fact that childhood ends is exactly what makes it so precious - and why you should cherish it while it lasts.

— Alex Hirsch

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home…

— Devon Werkheiser

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

— S. E. Hinton

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best…

— Judit Polgar

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

— Maria Montessori

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

— Yukio Mishima

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

— Richard Zera

“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.”

— Ted Dekker

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

— Andrew Wiles

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

— Lori Gottlieb

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

— Arthur Schopenhauer