Children and Childhood Quotes

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Childhood Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Childhood Quotes by Mary Lamb

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Childhood Quotes by Pindar

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Childhood Quotes by Robertson Davies

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Childhood Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

Childhood Quotes by Kinky Friedman

A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

Childhood Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto I, st. 25)

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Childhood Quotes by Will Ferrell

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

Childhood Quotes by Marion C. Garretty

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Proverbs (ch. X, v. 1)

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Childhood Quotes by Louise J. Kaplan

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Childhood Quotes by Thomas Szasz

Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.

Childhood Quotes by Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 6)

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Childhood Quotes by Dan Pursuit

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Childhood Quotes by Rita Dove

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Childhood Quotes by Samuel Richardson

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Benjamin Spock

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

Childhood Quotes by Dorothy Parker (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

Childhood Quotes by Mason Cooley

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Childhood Quotes by Josef Albers

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.

Childhood Quotes by Jami Gertz

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Childhood Quotes by Karel Capek

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Childhood Quotes by Valentina Tereshkova

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Childhood Quotes by Ned Rorem (American Composer, b.1923)

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Childhood Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Childhood Quotes by Larry Niven

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

Childhood Quotes by Natasha Richardson

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Childhood Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Samuel West

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Childhood Quotes by Don Herold

Backward, turn backward, Oh Time, in your flight; Make me a child again, just for tonight.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

Childhood Quotes by Chinese proverb

Beauty is the child of love.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Childhood Quotes by Donna Brazile

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Childhood Quotes by Hakeem Olajuwon

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

Childhood Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Beppo

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Richard Henry Dana, The Idle Man--Domestic Life

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

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

Childhood Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Childhood Quotes by John Holt

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Childhood Quotes by Bill Bryson

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Childhood Quotes by Louise Bogan

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

Childhood Quotes by David Gest

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.

Childhood Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 153)

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Childhood Quotes by Max Muller

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Childhood Quotes by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Mill on the Floss (bk. I, ch. IX)

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Childhood Quotes by William Golding

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

Childhood Quotes by Ken Hill

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood Quotes by Helen Hayes (American stage and film Actress, 1900-1993)

Childhood is short, maturity is forever

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood Quotes by George F. Will (American editor and news commentator b.1941)

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Childhood Quotes by John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.

Childhood Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay (American poet and dramatist, 1892-1950)

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Childhood Quotes by Cesare Pavese (Italian Poet, Critic, Novelist and Translator, who introduced many modern US and English writers to Italy. 1908-1950)

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Childhood Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Childhood Quotes by Richard Zera

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Childhood Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Childhood Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Childhood Quotes by Lydia M. Child

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Childhood Quotes by Bob Filner

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

Childhood Quotes by David Leavitt

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Childhood Quotes by Anna Jameson

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Childhood Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Childhood Quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Childhood Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Childhood Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Childhood Quotes by James Baldwin

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Childhood Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Childhood Quotes by Harold S. Hulbert

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Childhood Quotes by Mariska Hargitay

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Childhood Quotes by Estella Warren

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Childhood Quotes by Rollo May

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 6, subsect. 5)

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Childhood Quotes by Erik Erikson

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

Childhood Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Childhood Quotes by Simon Pegg

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Rob Reiner

Every time a child says,” I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

Childhood Quotes by Tina Yothers

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Beryl Bainbridge

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Childhood Quotes by Kate DiCamillo

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Alexander Herzen

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Alfred Schnittke

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Childhood Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Childhood Quotes by Herman Hesse

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Childhood Quotes by William Gibson

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Childhood Quotes by David Elkind

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Childhood Quotes by John Philip Sousa

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Childhood Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Childhood Quotes by Pierre Charles Baudelaire

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Childhood Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Childhood Quotes by St. Francis Xavier

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Childhood Quotes by Charles Dickens (English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Childhood Quotes by Herbert Gold

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Childhood Quotes by Erik Erikson

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Childhood Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Harold Ramis

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Neal Cassady

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 grew up.

Childhood Quotes by Chester Bennington

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.

Childhood Quotes by Saul Steinberg

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Childhood Quotes by Thornton Wilder

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Childhood Quotes by Edna O'Brien

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Leverett Saltonstall

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Childhood Quotes by Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. (father of prominent children's psychoanalyst Anna Freud), 1856-1939)

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Franz Liszt

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Childhood Quotes by Billy Corgan

I didn't have a childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Pat Morita

I didn't have a happy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Giorgio Armani

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

Childhood Quotes by Angela Merkel

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Redford

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

Childhood Quotes by Kinky Friedman

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Childhood Quotes by Sophie Marceau

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

Childhood Quotes by Michael Chabon

I gave up my childhood for a career.

Childhood Quotes by Brenda Lee

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

Childhood Quotes by Andrew Wiles

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Shaun Cassidy

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Darius Milhaud

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Childhood Quotes by Kurt Cobain

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Childhood Quotes by Patti Smith

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

Childhood Quotes by Maureen Forrester

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

Childhood Quotes by Suzanne Farrell

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Childhood Quotes by Rachel Dratch

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Childhood Quotes by Rory Bremner

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Susie Bright

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Childhood Quotes by Nolan Ryan

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Childhood Quotes by Andrew Wiles

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Childhood Quotes by Charles Lamb

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

Childhood Quotes by Tina Yothers

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

Childhood Quotes by Daniel Pinkwater

I look back to a happy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

Childhood Quotes by Frank Leslie

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

Childhood Quotes by William Graham Sumner

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.

Childhood Quotes by Drew Barrymore (American Actress, b.1975)

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Matthew (ch. II, v. 18)

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Childhood Quotes by Alma Guillermoprieto

I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

Childhood Quotes by Louise Hay

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Childhood Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

Childhood Quotes by Wally Schirra

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

Childhood Quotes by Kate Adie

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Childhood Quotes by Stanislav Grof

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Childhood Quotes by Dennis Rodman

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Manuel Puig

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

Childhood Quotes by Bobby Flay

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Childhood Quotes by Derek Jacobi

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Childhood Quotes by Dennis Potter

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Childhood Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Don DeLillo

I think this feeling that I have for people and the importance of behaving in a way which is respectful to people of all colours, shapes, sizes and religions goes back a very long way.. possibly to my mother and father in very early stages of childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Janet Holmes a Court

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Childhood Quotes by Marcel Carne

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Childhood Quotes by Tommy Rettig

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Childhood Quotes by Charley Pride

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Childhood Quotes by Uma Thurman

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Childhood Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Alan Hovhaness

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Childhood Quotes by Patrick Stewart

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

Childhood Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres (American Actress and stand-up Comedian, b.1958 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Childhood Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

Childhood Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities.

Childhood Quotes by Chris Corrigan

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.

Childhood Quotes by Lewis Carroll, "Solitude"

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Jay Lifton

I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

Childhood Quotes by Eric Wilson

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

Childhood Quotes by Patty Duke

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Jonathan Coe

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Barbet Schroeder

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by David McCallum

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Childhood Quotes by Rachel Carson

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

Childhood Quotes by Dorothy Law Nolte

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Peter Handke

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Childhood Quotes by Goethe

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

Childhood Quotes by Tim Conway

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Childhood Quotes by Carl Jung

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Childhood Quotes by Tom Stoppard (British Playwright, b.1937)

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

Childhood Quotes by Tracy Kidder

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

Childhood Quotes by Patsy Cline

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Brault,

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

Childhood Quotes by John Ratzenberger

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

Childhood Quotes by Edvard Munch

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Childhood Quotes by Sergio Leone

It is never too late to have a happy childhood

Childhood Quotes by Tom Robbins (American Novelist. b.1936)

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Childhood Quotes by Alice Miller

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Childhood Quotes by Margaret Mead

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

Childhood Quotes by Alice Miller

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Childhood Quotes by Miranda Richardson

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Corey Feldman

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Childhood Quotes by DeForest Kelley

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

Childhood Quotes by Fran Drescher

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

Childhood Quotes by John Keegan

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Berke Breathed

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Childhood Quotes by Maya Lin

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

Childhood Quotes by Lucien Bouchard

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Childhood Quotes by Tom Glazer

Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.

Childhood Quotes by Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Childhood Quotes by Alice Meynell

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Childhood Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Psalms (ch. CXXVII, v. 3-5)

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

Childhood Quotes by Louise Hay

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 29)

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

Childhood Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Childhood Quotes by Ethel Waters

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Childhood Quotes by Peter Shaffer

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Vaughn

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Childhood Quotes by Frank McCourt

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Childhood Quotes by Robert B. Laughlin

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

Childhood Quotes by Peter Jurasik

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Childhood Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Childhood Quotes by Bill Cosby

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Childhood Quotes by Igor Stravinsky (Russian-born modern composer, 1882-1971)

My childhood was appalling.

Childhood Quotes by Taylor Caldwell

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.

Childhood Quotes by Ronnie James Dio

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

Childhood Quotes by Thomas Keller

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

Childhood Quotes by Steve Irwin

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

Childhood Quotes by Frederick Reines

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Childhood Quotes by Philip Zimbardo

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

Childhood Quotes by Anita Diament

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Childhood Quotes by Roberto Benigni

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Paula Danziger

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

Childhood Quotes by Lee Grant

My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,

Childhood Quotes by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes--Second Week, Fourth Day (bk. II)

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Childhood Quotes by Truman Capote

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Childhood Quotes by Amy Tan

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Childhood Quotes by Ray Charles

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

Childhood Quotes by Josh Lucas

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Harry Shearer

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Eleanor Porter

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, and a soldier.

Childhood Quotes by Orlando Bloom

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Childhood Quotes by Kaley Cuoco

No child born a criminal; no child is born an angel: he's just born.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

Childhood Quotes by William H. Macy

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Childhood Quotes by Carl Jung

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 the mountains...

Childhood Quotes by Diane Ackerman (American Writer, b.1948)

Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Childhood Quotes by Plato

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

Childhood Quotes by Malcolm de Chazal

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

Childhood Quotes by Agatha Christie

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Childhood Quotes by Al Sharpton

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

Childhood Quotes by Thomas Arnold

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Childhood Quotes by Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

Childhood Quotes by Bible

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Fred Rogers

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Childhood Quotes by Tom Holt

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Beverly Cleary

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Childhood Quotes by Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. (father of prominent children's psychoanalyst Anna Freud), 1856-1939)

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Childhood Quotes by John Le Carre

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

Childhood Quotes by Henry Winkler

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Childhood Quotes by Alice Miller

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

Childhood Quotes by Adam Rickitt

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

Childhood Quotes by Henry Williamson

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Childhood Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Childhood Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Childhood Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Childhood Quotes by Dennis Potter

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Childhood Quotes by Bobby Hull

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Childhood Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Childhood Quotes by Liv Tyler

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

Childhood Quotes by William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Childhood Quotes by Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Maxims

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Childhood Quotes by Adam Savage

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Virginia Woolf

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

Childhood Quotes by Dwayne Hickman

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Childhood Quotes by Satish Kumar

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Childhood Quotes by Donna Tartt

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Childhood Quotes by John Milton (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

Childhood Quotes by Unknown , Old Nursery Rhyme

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Childhood Quotes by Antonia Fraser

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]

Childhood Quotes by Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XII)

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Childhood Quotes by Bill Cosby (American Actor, Comedian and Producer. b.1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Childhood Quotes by Eleanor Farjeon

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Childhood Quotes by Art Linkletter

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.

Childhood Quotes by Christopher Morley, To a Child

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Childhood Quotes by Fred Astaire

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose

Childhood Quotes by Garrison Keillor (American writer and broadcaster b.1942)

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Dennis Potter

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

Childhood Quotes by Marguerite Kelly

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Childhood Quotes by John le Carre

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Childhood Quotes by DeForest Kelley

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Childhood Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Childhood Quotes by Jerry Only

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Childhood Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Childhood Quotes by Lorna Luft

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Childhood Quotes by Rebecca H. Davis

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

Childhood Quotes by Shannon Miller

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Childhood Quotes by Anselm Kiefer

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Childhood Quotes by Alison Bechdel

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Childhood Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

The son whines to his father, "You messed up my childhood!" And the father says, "How could I, son? I wasn't even there

Childhood Quotes by Unknown

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves

Childhood Quotes by Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Childhood Quotes by Isaiah Berlin

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Quotes by E. B. White

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Childhood Quotes by Hodding Carter

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Childhood Quotes by Benjamin Spock

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

Childhood Quotes by Marcel Proust (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Childhood Quotes by Cleveland Amory

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

Childhood Quotes by Elizabeth Lawrence

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Childhood Quotes by Deepak Chopra

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Childhood Quotes by Deepak Chopra (Indian ayurvedic Physician and Author, b.1947)

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity

Childhood Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Childhood Quotes by Maria Callas (American Soprano. 1923-1977)

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

Childhood Quotes by Pamela Stephenson

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Childhood Quotes by Lisa Whelchel

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

Childhood Quotes by Peter Straub

They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Those truants from home and from Heaven They have made me more manly and mild; And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child.

Childhood Quotes by Charles M. Dickinson, The Children

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Psalms (ch. CXXVIII, v. 3)

'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.

Childhood Quotes by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster (act V, sc. 2, l. 15)

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Childhood Quotes by Plutarch

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Childhood Quotes by Giorgio de Chirico

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Childhood Quotes by James H. Breasted

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 6)

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

Childhood Quotes by Elijah Cummings

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Childhood Quotes by Goethe

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Childhood Quotes by Raquel Welch

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Childhood Quotes by Sissela Bok

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Childhood Quotes by Vinoba Bhave

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Childhood Quotes by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Childhood Quotes by Jerry Doyle

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

Childhood Quotes by Sydney J. Harris (American Journalist and Author, He wrote a syndicated column, Strictly Personal, from 1944-86. 1917-1986)

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Childhood Quotes by Ben Okri (Nigerian author who uses magic realism to convey the social and political chaos in his country, 1959)

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

Childhood Quotes by Howie Mandel

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Childhood Quotes by Kary Mullis

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Peter Jurasik

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Childhood Quotes by Gerald Scarfe

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Childhood Quotes by Sydney Pollack

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Childhood Quotes by Christopher Morley

What children expect from grownups is not to be ‘understood’, but only to be loved, even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations – only trust.

Childhood Quotes by Carl Zucker

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Childhood Quotes by Charlie Sheen

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.

Childhood Quotes by Henry Reed

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Childhood Quotes by Martha Beck

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Childhood Quotes by Pablo Picasso

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Childhood Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Childhood Quotes by Karl Menninger

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Childhood Quotes by Brian Aldiss

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Childhood Quotes by Brian W. Aldiss

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

Childhood Quotes by Dave Lombardo

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

Childhood Quotes by Jeff Ament

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children

Childhood Quotes by Martin Luther (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Childhood Quotes in Bible, I Corinthians (ch. XIII, v. 11)

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

Childhood Quotes by Lukas Foss

When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little one gather around me, To bid me good-night and be kissed; On, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face.

Childhood Quotes by Charles M. Dickinson, The Children

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Childhood Quotes by Herman Hesse

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Georg Trakl

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Childhood Quotes by G. K. Chesterton (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Sam Ewing

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Childhood Quotes by Maurice Sendak

[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sect. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.

Childhood Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Leigh (bk. I, l. 48)

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Childhood Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

Childhood Quotes by Eugene Field, Wynken, Blynken and Nod

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

Childhood Quotes by Ron Perlman

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Childhood Quotes by Mary Lou Retton

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

Childhood Quotes by Robert Browning

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Childhood Quotes by Harry Stack Sullivan

You're never too old to have a happy childhood

Childhood Quotes by Unknown