Childhood Quotes

"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself"

"My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12"

"Childhood is a short season"

"My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more"

Tom Hooper, Director

"The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"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"

Sydney Pollack, Director

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

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood"

Louise J. Kaplan

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

Neal Cassady, Writer

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house"

Kaley Cuoco, Actress

"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor"

Ron Perlman, Actor

"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you"

Tracy Kidder, Author

"I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity"

Nolan Ryan, Athlete

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents"

Jude Law, Actor

"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise"

Raquel Welch, Actress

"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"

Karel Capek, Writer

"It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens"

Fran Drescher, Actress

"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"

Elijah Cummings, Politician

"My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows"

John Betjeman, Poet

"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell"

Louise Bogan, Poet

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults"

Brian Aldiss, Writer

"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have"

Amy Tan, Novelist

"That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

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

Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist

"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"

Paula Danziger, Author

"At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood"

Samuel West, Actor

"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood"

Susie Bright, Writer

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains"

Diane Ackerman, Poet

"When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away"

Jeff Ament, Musician

"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life"

Howie Mandel, Comedian

"I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up"

Chester Bennington, Musician

"My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education"

Ronnie James Dio, Musician

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