Childhood Quotes
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Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
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UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
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The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.
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There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.
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As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
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I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
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The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.
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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
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First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.
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For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
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Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.
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Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.
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The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
