Quotes about childhood
childhood parent idyllic
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer. Ken Dodd
childhood way england
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared. Kazuo Ishiguro
childhood world adults
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
childhood preparation worst
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. Kinky Friedman
childhood your-children heal
If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future. Oprah Winfrey
childhood snowman loud
I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud. Margaret Atwood
childhood energy borders
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. Mary Pipher
childhood survival resilience
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. Mary Oliver
childhood world dysfunctional-family
With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
childhood age immortality
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Pindar
childhood secret caves
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there. Peter Ackroyd
childhood parent forever
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower. Pete Wentz
childhood london adolescence
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. Peter Shaffer
childhood together saws
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together Tennessee Williams
childhood painting artistic
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. Sean Scully
childhood lasts males
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females. Lewis Thomas
childhood facts influence
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. Simon Callow
childhood temples surrender
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. Leo Tolstoy
childhood quiet candor
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
childhood want direct
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. Peter Jackson
childhood world kingdoms
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood. Peter Cameron
childhood sorrow forget
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. Phyllis McGinley
childhood curiosity states
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. Rachel Cusk
childhood feelings culture
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine. Lily King
childhood connections stories
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was. Lenora Crichlow
childhood gaps brands
The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood. Theophilus London
childhood library becoming
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! Tess Gerritsen
childhood conventional
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. Lauren Groff
childhood phases firsts
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright. Karl Rahner
childhood poor violent
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. Patrick Stewart
childhood house towns
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks Patty Duke
childhood terrible mess
I was in a terrible mess in my childhood. Joyce Meyer
childhood facts stories
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts. Katharine Anthony