Childhood Quotes
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That's what makes it so right. Your eyes—your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.
Bree Despain
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Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.
Carol Bly
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I can write about images from my own childhood for children today. I wasn't sure I could do this, but there was no way out; I had to use the images from my own childhood, because the child I was is the only child I really know.
Ellen Raskin
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What was once known as a mature age, disappeared. Now people prefer to stay young for a long time, and then immediately fall into childhood.
Alfred Capus
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I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
Stephen Furst
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I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
Troy Garity
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They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
Karen White
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“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”
Annie Ernaux
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I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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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
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
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Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.
Kay Boyle
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
Stephen Mangan
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I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.
Terry Gross
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
Rick Bass
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Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Sandra Cisneros