Childhood Quotes

• I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • Health
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch 'The Neverending Story,' 'Labyrinth,' and 'Legend' over and over again. Also, 'Willow' and 'The Goonies.'

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Childhood
  • Legend
  • Labyrinth

• I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Dad
  • Childhood
  • Playing Games

• I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • House

• 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.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Memories

• You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Happy
  • Childhood

• I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Ken Dodd
  • Parents
  • 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

• My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Work
  • Great
  • Family

• I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Happy
  • Childhood
  • Birthday

• I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • Childhood

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

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Up
  • Different
  • Childhood

• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Regret

• 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.

  

  Bruce Robinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Writing

• Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Childhood

• Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Reflecting Back

• Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • World
  • Different
  • Age

• 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

• 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.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Live
  • Age
  • House

• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Lost
  • Childhood

• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Forever

• I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • World
  • Parents
  • Childhood

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