Childhood Quotes

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

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

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

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 am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

I had a happy childhood.

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.