Quotes about childhood
childhood age fatherhood
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. Thomas Szasz
childhood way hardship
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised. Steven Seagal
childhood nasty habit
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of Tom Holt
childhood too-much lasts
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. Tom Stoppard
childhood fantastic repeats
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. Vanessa Paradis
childhood made novel
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett
childhood goes-on able
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. V. S. Naipaul
childhood streets highways
My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway. Steven Morrissey
childhood world achieve
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything. Sue Grafton
childhood paddling soup
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me. Sue Monk Kidd
childhood wish spending
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. Ricky Schroder
childhood parent dumb
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. Richard Griffiths
childhood adults
I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood. Umberto Eco
childhood age matter
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. Rick Steves
childhood challenges determined
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined. Sam Taylor-Wood
childhood parent kind
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents. W. P. Kinsella
childhood firsts steps
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. Ursula K. Le Guin
childhood disease sickness
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding