Childhood Quotes

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

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.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

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

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I had a great childhood.

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.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

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

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

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.

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.

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