CHILDHOOD QUOTES

• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
  ~ John Milton ~
• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
  ~ Patti Smith ~
• One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
  ~ Tom Felton ~
• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
  ~ Graham Greene ~
• The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
  ~ Tom Vilsack ~
• Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
  ~ Margaret Cho ~
• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
  ~ Jason Reitman ~
• Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
  ~ Jason Reitman ~
• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
  ~ John Le Carre ~
• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
  ~ Carl Lewis ~
• My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
  ~ Travis Barker ~
• My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
  ~ Steve Irwin ~
• Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
  ~ Maurice Sendak ~
• At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
  ~ Lewis Thomas ~
• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
  ~ Stanislav Grof ~
• Heal from childhood trauma and everything will be alright.
  ~ Amanda Qole ~
• Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
  ~ Rollo May ~
• 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 ~
• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
  ~ Margaret Mead ~
• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
  ~ Margaret Mead ~
• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
  ~ Margaret Mead ~
• I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
  ~ Mindy Kaling ~
• I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
  ~ Kurt Cobain ~
• My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
  ~ Matt Damon ~
• My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.
  ~ Demi Lovato ~
• My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
  ~ Jane Fonda ~
• Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
  ~ Christina Aguilera ~
• Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
  ~ Soren Kierkegaard ~
• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
  ~ Beth Ditto ~
• I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
  ~ Richard Dawkins ~
• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
  ~ Sigmund Freud ~
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
  ~ Charles Dickens ~
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
  ~ Charles Dickens ~
• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
  ~ Charlie Sheen ~
• What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
  ~ Charlie Sheen ~
• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
  ~ Bill Cosby ~
• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
  ~ Steve Martin ~
• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
  ~ Steve Martin ~
• Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
  ~ Pablo Picasso ~
• Childhood friends are holy trustworthy !
  ~ Shruti Shendurkar ~