Childhood Quotes · Page 81

I was actually wilder before I joined Cold Chisel. I was really wild.

— Jimmy Barnes

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

— Agatha Christie

I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and…

— Mike Flanagan

I wish I could go back in time and live my childhood all over again.. life back then was just perfect and…

— Haroun Chebbi

“I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.”

— Carrie Ryan

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

— Anthony Yarde

“I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.”

— Kirsty Logan

“Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over…

— Bertrand Russell

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality…

— Darell Hammond

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I…

— Wally Schirra

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I…

— Liv Tyler

“I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given…

— Sol Luckman

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the…

— Robert Winston

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in…

— Judy Blume

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering…

— Bruno Bettelheim

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness…

— Lee Atwater

Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'…

— Adyashanti

Anyone remember Hip-Hop and the 90s? When a person could sit on his porch drinking Gin & Juice while Killing Me Softly…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger,…

— Maurice Sendak

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new…

— John Banville

I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding…

— David Cameron

“some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.”

— Don DeLillo

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

— W. P. Kinsella

Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

— Tammy Duckworth

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

— Travis Barker

I agree I was rash and got totally out of hand when I was a teenager, but I took hold of my…

— Bobby Deol

Life was a lot easier when the only thing I had to take care of was a Tamagotchi.

— Anonymous

“Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

— Tina Yothers

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

— Richard Simmons

If you never jumped from couch to couch as kid to avoid the lava, then you missed out on childhood.

— Anonymous

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

The Flyers winning back to back Stanley Cups, all of those things were a part of my childhood.

— Sean Payton

“For him, it appeared he could freeze the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his hands like water.”

— J.U. Scribe

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

— Jenna McCarthy

Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

— Pope Francis