Childhood Quotes

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

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.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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.