Childhood Quotes
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My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
Ishmael Beah
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Lydia M. Child
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Maurice Sendak
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I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
Johnny Vegas
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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
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We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.
Barack Obama
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Adam Sandler
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One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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I never had a true childhood.
Bethenny Frankel
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I felt caged by my childhood.
Christina Aguilera
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I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
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My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
Peter Jurasik
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My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago - but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong.
David Wroblewski
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
Allison DuBois
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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
David Nicholls
