Childhood Quotes

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

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

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I had a great childhood.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.