Childhood Quotes

"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all"

"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity"

Roberto Benigni, Actor

"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil"

Ray Charles, Musician

"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld"

Henry Williamson, Author

"When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school"

Dave Lombardo, Musician

"I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy"

Jerry Doyle, Actor

"Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams"

Sergio Leone, Director

"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"

Lucien Bouchard, Lawyer

"I had a marvelously happy childhood"

Darius Milhaud, Composer

"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it"

Tina Yothers, Actress

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

Tina Yothers, Actress

"Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough"

Donna Brazile, Politician

"Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood"

Alfred Schnittke, Composer

"As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them"

Natasha Richardson, Actress

"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"

Tim Conway, Actor

"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream"

Rachel Dratch, Comedian

"Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood"

James H. Breasted

"My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

"I had a kind of Dickensian childhood"

Shaun Cassidy, Musician

"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"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"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

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

David Gest, Celebrity

"Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"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"

Harry Shearer, Actor

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

Herbert Gold, Author

"I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me"

Bobby Flay, Celebrity

"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"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"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

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

Barbet Schroeder, Director

"My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us"

Jami Gertz, Actress

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

Georg Trakl, Poet

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