Quotes about childhood
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 unhappy pleasant
I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything. Graham Norton
childhood together facts
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. Jeremy Piven
childhood would-be clean
I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left. Patti Davis
childhood very-happy ifs
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. Maeve Binchy
childhood products
All of us are products of our childhood. Michael Jackson
childhood feelings skins
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. Jason Reitman
childhood phrases veils
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh
childhood moments astonishing
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. Eugene Ionesco
childhood world adults
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
childhood body swimmer
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body. Estella Warren
childhood information able
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. Flannery O'Connor
childhood southern lasts
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.
childhood earth nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. George Eliot
childhood different mates
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. Gary Numan
childhood would-be columbus
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? Jack Kerouac
childhood age care
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. Isabel Allende
childhood morning shows youth
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. John Milton
childhood stupidity prejudice
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 youth stage
Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.
childhood choices my-birthday
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.
childhood disappoint generous
Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint. Emma Forrest
childhood together groups
There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'. Gwyneth Paltrow
childhood eight graduated high life opportunity
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. Nancy Jones
childhood my-own
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. Jack Prelutsky
childhood way rest-of-your-life
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 Nicholson
childhood bigs
Pretend was a big part of my childhood. Jeff Bridges
childhood betrayed boyhood
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. George William Russell
childhood literature rediscovery
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood. Georges Bataille
childhood triumph incomparable
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? George Sand