Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saunders

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

Rajneesh

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Terry Leahy

I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

Melissa Etheridge

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

Mariska Hargitay

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Marjane Satrapi

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Maurice Sendak

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Maurice Sendak

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Maurice Sendak

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Maurice Sendak

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Maria Montessori

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Pat Morita

I didn't have a childhood.

Lance Armstrong

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Nicole Krauss

...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Mitch Albom

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Michael K. Williams

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Michael Grant

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

Michael Chabon

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Socrates

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Natalia Vodianova

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Katherine Waterston

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

Talking about your childhood and how your parents handled money says a lot about you.

May-Britt Moser

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

It's just like anything -- they want to remember their childhood.

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

I want to see Miss Jackson go to jail for life. You took my childhood, a childhood I was supposed to have. I was so disappointed I will never get that back.

The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.

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.

Tim Kaine

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.