Childhood Quotes
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My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.
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I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
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I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
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I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
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I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.
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I felt caged by my childhood.
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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
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In that childhood room for whose warmth and safety we search all the rest of our lives and never find again.
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It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
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Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
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From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows.
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I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
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A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.
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I think that cakes should have touches of candy bar in order for it really to hit all those childhood notes on the keyboard.
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When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.
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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
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I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
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My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.
