Childhood Quotes

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.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

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

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.

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

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

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

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.

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.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

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

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.

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.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

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

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.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I didn't have a childhood.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

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.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.