Childhood Quotes
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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
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I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
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When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.
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Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
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I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.
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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.
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When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they're like, 'Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?' I'm like, 'No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.'
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I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
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Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
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My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
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It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.
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My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
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My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
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The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
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Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.
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My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.
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I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
