Childhood Quotations

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

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

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains. I have amazing parents.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

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.

If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the U.K., plus three years of drama school, you could say that I've been pretty much surrounded by the business of acting and performing my entire life.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my 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.