Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Numan

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

Christine Feehan

If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m right here, Lev. I’ll find them all, I’m good at details, and I’ll put you back together. You’re safe here.

Christa B. Allen

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

Isabel Allende

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

John Milton

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

Jeff Bridges

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

George William Russell

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

Georges Bataille

Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.

George Sand

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

George Saunders

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Emma Forrest

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

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.

Gwyneth Paltrow

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

Nancy Jones

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. We graduated from high school, and we worked. There were eight in our family. For you all I want something different for you all. I want you to have the childhood I didn't have, and I want your life to be better.

Jack Prelutsky

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Jack Nicholson

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

Jack Kerouac

I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?

John Caudwell

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.

Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.

Ted Hughes

I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it.

My overriding memory of childhood is having the freedom to decide which way to go in life and having my parents' support.

Bernard Arnault

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

Rita Ora

My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work.

Eric Allin Cornell

My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading.

We hope that when the summit is over, people will see the value of early childhood education.

Jean Baudrillard

Genius is childhood recaptured.

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.

James Hillman

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.