Top childhood Quotes Collection - Page 2

Discover a curated collection of childhood quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 2 provides more childhood quotes.

Image of Agnes Meyer Driscoll
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Collection: Childhood
Image of Dermot Mulroney
I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.
- Dermot Mulroney
Collection: Childhood
Image of Anthony Daniels
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
- Anthony Daniels
Collection: Childhood
Image of Cleveland Amory
There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
- Cleveland Amory
Collection: Childhood
Image of Hans Bellmer
Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.
- Hans Bellmer
Collection: Childhood
Image of Jonathan Ames
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
- Jonathan Ames
Collection: Childhood
Image of Harold Budd
My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.
- Harold Budd
Collection: Childhood
Image of Sarah Ruhl
Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
- Sarah Ruhl
Collection: Childhood
Image of V. S. Pritchett
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
- V. S. Pritchett
Collection: Childhood
Image of Carlo Collodi
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
- Carlo Collodi
Collection: Childhood
Image of Joan Crawford
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
- Joan Crawford
Collection: Childhood
Image of Auguste Comte
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
- Auguste Comte
Collection: Childhood
Image of Joseph Cornell
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
- Joseph Cornell
Collection: Childhood
Image of Simon Sebag-Montefiore
The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Collection: Childhood
Image of Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Collection: Childhood
Image of Lindy West
There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.
- Lindy West
Collection: Childhood
Image of Paul Feig
The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.
- Paul Feig
Collection: Childhood
Image of Eva Figes
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
- Eva Figes
Collection: Childhood
Image of Kishore Kumar
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).
- Kishore Kumar
Collection: Childhood
Image of Katharine Anthony
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
- Katharine Anthony
Collection: Childhood
Image of Harry Leslie Smith
My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey
- Harry Leslie Smith
Collection: Childhood
Image of Paula Sharp
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.
- Paula Sharp
Collection: Childhood
Image of Michael Dibdin
You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.
- Michael Dibdin
Collection: Childhood
Image of Michael Gruber
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
- Michael Gruber
Collection: Childhood
Image of Janisse Ray
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
- Janisse Ray
Collection: Childhood
Image of Florence Fabricant
Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.
- Florence Fabricant
Collection: Childhood
Image of William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
- William Gaddis
Collection: Childhood
Image of Sarah Moon
To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.
- Sarah Moon
Collection: Childhood
Image of Robert Greenwald
Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs
- Robert Greenwald
Collection: Childhood
Image of Lenora Crichlow
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
- Lenora Crichlow
Collection: Childhood
Image of Genesis Rodriguez
Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.
- Genesis Rodriguez
Collection: Childhood
Image of Gary D.
We carry our childhood with us.
- Gary D.
Collection: Childhood
Image of Alice Hoffman
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
- Alice Hoffman
Collection: Childhood
Image of Nikki DeLoach
Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.
- Nikki DeLoach
Collection: Childhood
Image of Lily King
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
- Lily King
Collection: Childhood
Image of Mohsin Hamid
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
- Mohsin Hamid
Collection: Childhood
Image of Jodi Kantor
Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.
- Jodi Kantor
Collection: Childhood
Image of Daniel A. Poling
Life is the childhood of immortality.
- Daniel A. Poling
Collection: Childhood
Image of Judy Delton
What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.
- Judy Delton
Collection: Childhood
Image of Gaston Bachelard
Childhood lasts all through life.
- Gaston Bachelard
Collection: Childhood
Image of Heidi Julavits
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?
- Heidi Julavits
Collection: Childhood
Image of Denis Johnson
This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
- Denis Johnson
Collection: Childhood
Image of Nicole Krauss
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
- Nicole Krauss
Collection: Childhood
Image of W. P. Kinsella
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
- W. P. Kinsella
Collection: Childhood
Image of Eyvind Kang
All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.
- Eyvind Kang
Collection: Childhood
Image of Astrid Lindgren
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
- Astrid Lindgren
Collection: Childhood
Image of Takashi Miike
I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.
- Takashi Miike
Collection: Childhood
Image of Baron Vaughn
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
- Baron Vaughn
Collection: Childhood
Image of Jaak Kilmi
My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.
- Jaak Kilmi
Collection: Childhood