Childhood Quotes

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

There was very little art in my childhood.

I look back to a happy childhood.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

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

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I didn't have a childhood.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.