Childhood Quotes (385 Quotes)

My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees.

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.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

We're supposed to be the modern-day gladiators. This is a big, macho world where people think you can't talk about difficult things from your childhood. You're talking about putting yourself in a very vulnerable position and that's hard for people with this kind of mentality.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.'

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

My parents always had books around. My dad read a chapter a night of Kipling's Jungle Book to us, and, of course, I loved comics. And I'm a habitual reader now and I track that back to childhood.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Childhood occupies the biggest part of your brain, so a lot of my memories subconsciously (and consciously) enter the videos I do.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

We look at the world once, in childhood.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

According to Statistic Canada's findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey, 26 percent of Canadian children and adolescents aged two to 17 were overweight or obese in 2004. Between 1978 and 2004 the obesity rate among 12-17 year olds increased from three percent to nine percent. Childhood obesity has tripled over the past two decades, ... Obesity is a serious and complex issue that requires a multi-faceted approach. The Government of Canada is committed to supporting research that will help find solutions.

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

My overriding memory of childhood is having the freedom to decide which way to go in life and having my parents' support.

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. We graduated from high school, and we worked. There were eight in our family. For you all I want something different for you all. I want you to have the childhood I didn't have, and I want your life to be better.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

We all have been for all time...and we shall be for all time As the spirit of our mortal body wanders on in childhood, and youth and old age, the Spirit wanders on to A new body of this the sage has no doubts.

Childhood, with all its mirth,Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground,And last, Man's Life on earth,Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days.

I didn't have a childhood.

The flying was terrifying at first. You look down and there's nothing but your toes and the stage. Now, it's a dream. This whole show for me has been just checking off the list of childhood dreams. I can just kind of move to Connecticut after this.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I had a rough childhood. When I was born, the doctor advised me of my rights.

Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency like the dew at dawn and eve.

Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems. So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like thatwhen you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuffit's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still From the torrent, or the fountain, From the red cliff of the mountain, From the sun that round me rolled In its autumn tint of gold, From the lightning in the sky As it passed me flying by, From the thunder and the storm, And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view.