Childhood Quotes
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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
Miranda Richardson
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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.
Williston Fish
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In reality it was much simpler. For at least ten years the God of childhood, already fairly weak, had been pushed aside like an old sick person, and I felt no need for the sanctity of marriage.
Elena Ferrante
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Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
Russell Baker
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Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
Georges St-Pierre
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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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“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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They may have fast-track hyperkinetic personalities, be impatient, restless, impulsive, often intuitive and creative but unable to follow through, frequently unable to linger long enough to develop a stable intimate relationship. Usually, they have self-esteem problems that began in childhood.
Edward Hallowell
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I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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I always felt that I had a childhood. I went to regular school whenever I wasn't working. At one point, I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Kim Fields
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
Stephen Mangan
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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
Paul Gauguin
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
Cressida Cowell
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I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
Ricky Schroder
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As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.
Augustus Napier
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It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.
Michael Jackson
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.
Michael Jackson
