Childhood Quotes · Page 80

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

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

The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're…

— Mike Lookinland

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

“Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked…

— David E. Hilton

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And…

— Angela Bowie

I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a…

— David Olusoga

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I…

— Sydney J. Harris

I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want…

— Jessica White

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into…

— Lily Allen

“Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out…

— Erin McCarthy

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So,…

— Jonathan Groff

“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,…

— Maile Meloy

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood…

— Nicholas Kristof

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could…

— Shirley Jackson

What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not…

— G.K. Chesterton

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven…

— Ann Patchett

“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

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

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

— Stefan Zweig

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

“My whole life, you have made decisions for me." "Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.”

— Sarah MacLean

“Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.”

— K. Arsenault Rivera

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

— Rachel Dolezal

“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”

— Evelyn Waugh

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

— Cordae

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

— George Saunders