Childhood Quotes

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

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

My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

I had a great childhood.

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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.