Quotes about childhood
childhood may demented
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. Poppy Z. Brite
childhood kitchen wonderland
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland! Paris Hilton
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 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. Kazuo Ishiguro
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
childhood body faces
Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of. Elizabeth Hand
childhood sorrow age
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit. Elizabeth Gaskell
childhood wish sometimes
Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. Jimmy Fallon
childhood lollipop ships
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop. Joan Crawford
childhood birth early-childhood
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth. Madeleine M. Kunin
childhood hell
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. Louise Bogan
childhood feel-good age
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. John Gardner
childhood stockholm-syndrome syndromes
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood. Jonathan Ames
childhood fancy grows
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy. John Irving
childhood towns small-town
Childhood is the small town everyone came from. Garrison Keillor
childhood lasts firsts
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential Malala Yousafzai