Childhood Quotes

• I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Fun
  • Father

• Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Love
  • Black
  • Wealth

• The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

  

  Brittany Curran
  • World
  • True
  • Movie

• Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Risk
  • Boys
  • Injured

• 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.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Done
  • Kids
  • Taken

• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education

• My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

  

  David Gross
  • Family
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Period
  • Storm
  • Anchor

• From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Talk

• One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Memories

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

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Childhood

• Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Time
  • Children
  • Education

• Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Song
  • Childhood

• The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Becoming

• 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.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Work
  • Children
  • Learning

• I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

  

  Jim Morris
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Childhood

• We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

  

  David Elkind
  • Lost
  • Childhood
  • Mourning

• Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Possibility
  • Reveries

• My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I know it's fashionable to blame your childhood for everything nowadays - thank you, Freud. The thing is, though, I really don't feel scarred by mine. But perhaps if I'd been in therapy for 10 years, and you were able to read the records, you'd disagree.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Childhood

• There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Childhood

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