Quotes about childhood
childhood pledge ripe
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. Amos Bronson Alcott
childhood nursery made
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
childhood waiting here-and-there
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up. Anthony Doerr
childhood modern britain
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence Anthony Daniels
childhood house body
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. Anne Sexton
childhood jersey denver
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12. Anita Diament
childhood obesity childhood-obesity
Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles. Anthony Jeselnik
childhood young
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand. Jane Wagner
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood feelings would-be
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
childhood guy movement
In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy. Bob Dylan
childhood aging
The old are in a second childhood. Aristophanes
childhood age old-age
Old age is second childhood.
childhood romance despair
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible. Edmund Burke
childhood known
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. Beverly Cleary
childhood periods
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. Edward Hoagland
childhood alive emotion
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry. Edward Hirsch
childhood gloomy satisfied
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. Astrid Lindgren
childhood trying alive
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. Edna O'Brien
childhood life-is whole-life
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. Benjamin Franklin
childhood identity important
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. Ayad Akhtar
childhood gullible possibility
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. Arthur C. Clarke
childhood insane heritage
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. Dean Koontz
childhood age connections
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
childhood warp
But nothing warps time quite like childhood Brian K. Vaughan
childhood decision able
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. Dido Armstrong
childhood comedy
I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure. Ed Helms
childhood malls
There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. Dave Foley
childhood want bottles
If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. Dave Barry
childhood looks happy-childhood
I look back to a happy childhood. Catherine Helen Spence
childhood fickle lovers
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
childhood cinema hollywood
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie. Bruno Tonioli