Childhood Quotes

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. — Lance Armstrong
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us.… — Margaret Atwood
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood… — Ann Bancroft
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Genius is childhood recalled at will. — Charles Baudelaire
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I… — Chester Bennington
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and… — Ezra Taft Benson
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was… — Annie Besant
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
Tackling childhood obesity is key. — Diane Abbott
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood… — Ambrose Bierce
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince,… — Orlando Bloom

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