Childhood Quotes

• A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • World
  • Light
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • American
  • Air
  • Childhood

• I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • School
  • Doing

• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Lost
  • Childhood

• My faith in God is unshakeable, even though till date, I have not experienced any miraculous incident that makes me feel the presence of a higher power. But the trust in God has been engrained into my psyche since my childhood.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

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

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • May
  • Childhood

• Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

  

  Lenora Crichlow
  • Childhood
  • Connection
  • Awesome

• It was a very well-rounded childhood with lots of different opportunities. My mom will say she set out to overstimulate me - surround me with way too many things and let me pick. As a result, I've always been a multitasker; I've always liked a lot of variety.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Different
  • She
  • Mom

• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • World
  • Family
  • True

• An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Childhood
  • Sad
  • Lonely

• My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Present

• Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • College
  • Childhood

• Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Support
  • Childhood
  • Period

• One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • People
  • Home
  • Kids

• We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.

  

  David Newman
  • Childhood
  • Baseball

• My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mother

• Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dedication

• I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Childhood

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