Childhood Quotes · Page 82

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

— Anonymous

“I was still sitting in childhood when the darkness spoke to me.”

— Angelika Regossi

“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”

— Daphne du Maurier

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

— Colin MacInnes

This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow…

— Anna Quindlen

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

— Joseph Cornell

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.

— Aesop

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

— Fran Drescher

“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety…

— Stephen King

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou…

— Francis Beaumont

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing…

— Akira Toriyama

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most…

— Saint Remigius

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in…

— Jolene Blalock

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you…

— Leo Tolstoy

Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So,…

— Meg Ryan

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always…

— Erik Erikson

“On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized…

— Leslie Le Mon

That's what makes it so right. Your eyes—your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the…

— Bree Despain

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is…

— Anonymous

I really think 'Spring Awakening' is unlike any other show. At the end of the day, I hope people are moved by…

— Jake Epstein

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of…

— Anonymous

“All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty…

— David Connerley Nahm

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very…

— Maeve Binchy

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

— Kelly Ripa

My childhood had much clarity. I didn't see abuse. I didn't see my parents bickering. I didn't live in a dysfunctional family.

— Masaba Gupta

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

— Trevante Rhodes

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

— Debbie Reynolds

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

— Cornelia Parker

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

— Marcel Proust

I have been a very 'hyper boy' right from childhood. And while many liked that trait of mine, my friends didn't.

— N. T. Rama Rao, Jr

The walk of shame when you have to put something back in a store after your mom says no.

— Anonymous

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

— Paul Feig

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

— Nikola Tesla

My nan and grandad looked after us when I was young while my parents worked, and most of my childhood memories are…

— Frankie Bridge

“...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp,…

— Catherine Austen

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

— Richard Doll

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old…

— Vera Nazarian

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

— Wendy Wasserstein