Childhood Quotes
-
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
-
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
-
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
-
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
-
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
-
The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
-
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
-
I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.
-
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
-
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
-
It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.
-
I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
-
Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.
-
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
-
My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
-
I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.
-
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.
-
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
-
My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.
-
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
-
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.
-
I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'
-
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.
-
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
