Childhood Quotes

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

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.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

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

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

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

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Childhood reading is so important.

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

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

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

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

My childhood was extreme.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

I had a very happy childhood.

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

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

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

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

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

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.

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

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

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

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

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

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

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

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

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

I had an amazing childhood.

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.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

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

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.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

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

My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.

I never had a true childhood.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

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

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

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.