Childhood Quotes

• She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

  

  Alice Munro
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • School
  • 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

• I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.

  

  David Quammen
  • World
  • Happy
  • Childhood

• We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Children

• I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised.

  

  Kristina McMorris
  • Couple
  • Memories
  • Personality

• To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • Live
  • Help

• I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • True
  • Dream

• 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 am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Childhood

• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • Childhood
  • Insanity

• I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Boy
  • Childhood

• I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Boy

• I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the men. Black women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the whites.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Women
  • She
  • Wise

• All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

  

  David Leavitt
  • Childhood

• I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Childhood

• Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

  

  Lilli Palmer
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Smell

• I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Friends
  • Amazing
  • Childhood

• 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

• Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality. But then comes the chilly breath on the nape of the neck, a stirring of the air by the wings of the bleak angel. When a man becomes one hundred percent certain of his inevitable death, he gets The Look.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Death
  • Air
  • Angel

• I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

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