Childhood Quotes

• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

  

  Patty Duke
  • House
  • Small
  • Childhood

• I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Family
  • Kid
  • Crowd

• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • World
  • Sports
  • Childhood

• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Childhood
  • Neurosis

• I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

  

  Ryan Murphy
  • Parents
  • Emotional
  • Childhood

• I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Remember
  • Childhood
  • Warmth

• More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

  

  Morgan Spurlock
  • Adults
  • Billions
  • Obesity

• I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Childhood

• How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Weak

• The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Busy
  • Helpful

• Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

  

  John Grisham
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Silence
  • Pictures
  • Shadows

• One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.

  

  Jose Andres
  • America
  • Happy
  • Growing

• All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Childhood
  • Emotions
  • Experiences

• The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Why
  • Childhood

• I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Childhood
  • Whole
  • Hated

• Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Religion
  • Laughter
  • Association

• We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Time
  • Childhood

• I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Childhood
  • Engineering
  • Medicine

• I envy my daughter's childhood.

  

  Rene Russo
  • Childhood
  • Daughter

• The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Wealthy

• There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

  

  Steven Saylor
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Childhood

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