Childhood Quotes · Page 75

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

— Joss Whedon

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

— Cleveland Amory

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

— Loren Eiseley

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

— Frank Herbert

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

— Christina Ricci

I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its…

— Stewart O'Nan

My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I…

— Jeet Gannguli

“Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and…

— Junot Díaz

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would…

— Robert Lepage

“The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.”

— Anonymous

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been…

— Mark Wahlberg

“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of…

— Miranda Emmerson

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was…

— Anthony Browne

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if…

— Olga Trujillo

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a…

— Will Shetterly

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the…

— LaChanze

“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it…

— Richard Dawkins

I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are…

— Pamela Adlon

I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My…

— Leslie Jordan

I had a happy childhood in the suburbs of L.A. My parents instilled in us an appreciation of history, art and, most…

— Jason Collins

“Family is not disparate relationships between individuals and machines, in separate rooms of a house. Childhood is not a race to accumulate…

— Kim John Payne

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

— C.M. Stunich

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

— Ted Naifeh

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

— William Faulkner

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

— Gabriela Mistral

“Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.”

— Julian Barnes

When I was a kid, I thought if you dig far enough, you'd find china...

— Anonymous

I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.

— Rachel Keller

In childhood days I used to be free of sorrow and worry today that my child is free

— Mak_786

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

— Shannon Miller

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

— Tom Hooper

In fact, in childhood, I was scared to watch a film in a dark theatre.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

— Shiri Appleby