Top childhood Quotes Collection
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In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.Collection: Childhood
If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.Collection: Childhood
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.Collection: Childhood
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.Collection: Childhood
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.Collection: Childhood
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.Collection: Childhood
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.Collection: Childhood
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.Collection: Childhood
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.Collection: Childhood
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.Collection: Childhood
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.Collection: Childhood
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.Collection: Childhood
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.Collection: Childhood
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.Collection: Childhood
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.Collection: Childhood
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.Collection: Childhood
Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.Collection: Childhood
It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.Collection: Childhood
I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.Collection: Childhood
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.Collection: Childhood
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!Collection: Childhood
Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.Collection: Childhood
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.Collection: Childhood
I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.Collection: Childhood
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.Collection: Childhood
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.Collection: Childhood
Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.Collection: Childhood
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.Collection: Childhood
Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.Collection: Childhood
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.Collection: Childhood
We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.Collection: Childhood
I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.Collection: Childhood
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.Collection: Childhood
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.Collection: Childhood
Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.Collection: Childhood
The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood.Collection: Childhood
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.Collection: Childhood
The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.Collection: Childhood
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.Collection: Childhood
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.Collection: Childhood
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.Collection: Childhood
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.Collection: Childhood
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.Collection: Childhood
A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.Collection: Childhood
Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.Collection: Childhood
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.Collection: Childhood
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).Collection: Childhood
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.Collection: Childhood
There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."Collection: Childhood
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.Collection: Childhood