Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Norton

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

Francis Quarles

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Pat LaFontaine

I can't tell you guys how honored I am and how proud I am to join the great tradition and to be up there with you guys. When I was my son's age, about 10, I had a childhood idol and I can't tell you, in my wildest dreams, that I'd ever think that my jersey would be going next to his.

Johnny Depp

I don't want to be stuck in one spot. My childhood was spent moving around. We were total nomads. Like gypsies, just moving from one place to another all the time. That's kind of ingrained into my psyche, into my being. I couldn't stand being in one spot for too long.

Emma Forrest

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

Jason Reitman

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.

Evelyn Waugh

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.

Jack Prelutsky

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Jack Nicholson

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 Kerouac

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?

Isabel Allende

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.

John Milton

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

David Quammen

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.

Nancy Jones

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.

Guillermo Coria

It's a childhood dream to be in the final,

It's become one of the dominant infections of childhood.

It's not the childhood that we remember from the '50s and '60s. Kids are not free to run around. (And) people just don't walk the way they used to at all.

Greg Behrendt

It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Louise Bogan

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

John Gardner

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

Jonathan Ames

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Patty Duke

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

Mary Pipher

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

Mary Oliver

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Mary Oliver

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.

Pindar

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Peter Ackroyd

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.

Pete Wentz

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.

Peter Shaffer

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Elizabeth Hand

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 Gaskell

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.