Childhood Quotes

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

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.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

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

I didn't have a happy childhood.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since 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 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.