Best Childhood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Might House Childhood Conversation Great Things Childhood Friend

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.”

Parent Perfect Childhood Grandparent No Fear Have No Fear Parents And Grandparents Perfect Parents Just Love Me

Author:Melanie Laurent

“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.”

People Giving Different Would Be Literature Interesting Written Childhood Window Motherhood Different Peoples Really Interesting

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.”

Actors Childhood Good Childhood

Author:William H. Macy

“My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.”

School Girl Childhood Comfortable Secure Nightmare Other Girl Giraffe

Author:Brigitte Nielsen

“The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.”

Dream Form Song Lines Childhood Rocks Originals Albums Drawing Bunch Punk Rock And Roll Dreams Come True Influential Childhood Dreams

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.”

Knows Want Writing Firsts Book Childhood Your Children

Author:Tea Obreht

“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

Home Kids Childhood New York Grew Grew Up Sick Asthma Sick Kids

Author:Josh Peck

“Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.”

World Heart Found Lost Causes Childhood My Heart Insanity Lost And Found

Author:Michael Jackson

“I gave up my childhood for a career.”

Careers Childhood Gave Up

Author:Brenda Lee

“Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.”

Childhood Smell Perfume Brownies

Book:The Stories of David Leavitt

Source: The Stories of David Leavitt

“I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.”

Men Kind Stills Five Childhood Fields Brother Balls Blessed Work Out Corners Bowls Bloody Turkeys Athletic

Author:Danny Pino

“My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.”

Childhood Grew Mom Dad Grew Up My Dad Boring My Mom Indiana Kansas

Author:Hunter Parrish

“John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.”

Has Beens Facts Together Film Childhood Pun

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.”

Bigs Childhood Teenage Turtles Ninja Mutants Ninja Turtle Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Author:Megan Fox

“I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.”

Wanted Childhood Normal

Author:Tommy Rettig

“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.”

Years Wells Whole Mother Class Childhood Grew Grew Up Dancer Ballet Dance Class

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.”

Country Childhood Happenings Following Colombia

Author:Barbet Schroeder

“I look back to a happy childhood.”

Looks Childhood Happy Childhood

Book:Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

Writing Lost Novel Childhood Illusion Expectations Titles Maturity Passages Thrill Clash Great Writers Motifs

Author:Andre Maurois

“We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.”

Persons Ends Age Humanity Dark Known Childhood Buddhism Protect Aspect Preserves Cycles Division Incarnation Dark Ages Shiva Kali Vishnu Kali Yuga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.”

Ifs Artist Childhood Havens Amount Twenties Trauma Your Children Complexity

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.”

Knows Years Enough Childhood Chaos Dealing With It

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“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.”

Different Grows Growing Up Growing Childhood Type Benefits Drawbacks

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.”

Feelings Reality Kids Too Much Childhood Directors Contact Freak Obsessive Control Freak

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.”

Levels Childhood Lows Low Level

Author:Aisha Tyler

“When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.”

Happens Childhood Normal Complexes Teenager Normality

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.”

Fantasy Childhood Mines Hollywood Cinema Been In Love Hollywood Movies

Author:Bruno Tonioli

“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.”

Firsts Persons Made Inspiration Black Situation Childhood Type Hero Expectations Very Good Albums British Britain Hats Realising Urban First Person Good Place Hats Off Urban Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

Ifs Thinking Children Passion Millions Successful Childhood Harder Inevitable Adoption Dna Infancy Unrequited Children Love Early Childhood

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.”

World Kind Feelings Kids Used Childhood Perception Hung Chaotic Hallucinations Apparitions Perception Of The World

Author:Jim Woodring

“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.”

Made Used Games Winning Childhood Dad My Dad Made It Nuts Mum

Author:Lee Westwood

“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Believe Childhood Events Mercy Our Children

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.”

Men Running Roles Cutting Wife Childhood Female Convinced Adolescence Subordinates

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.”

Born Boys Childhood New York Raised Brooklyn Brooklyn New York

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Would Be Understanding Interesting Childhood Scientist Relevant Outside World Inner World Chemist Early Childhood

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.”

World Way Mean Home Age My Own Childhood Skip

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.”

Littles Age Together Three Watches Childhood Adventure Block Hanging Out Really Great Buddy Sixteen Creeks Radius Stand By Me

Author:Scoot McNairy

“You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.”

Knows Use Childhood Colorful

Author:Michael K. Williams

“It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.”

Home Dream Winning Careers Childhood Special Drivers Racing Unbelievable Highlights Childhood Dreams Racing Driver Grand Prix Monaco

Author:Nico

“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Should Children Book Ends Courses Reading Grows Enjoy Growing Up Magic Childhood Smart Adults Always Believe Children's Books Magic Of Childhood

Author:Colin Thompson

“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.”

Ifs Thinking Should Ends Magic Childhood Always Believe Magic Of Childhood

Author:Colin Thompson

“I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.”

Mother Enemy Forever Childhood Garden Moses

Author:Anita Diament

“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.”

People Way Feels Trying Play Childhood Wounds Horrible Greek Assumption Opera Old Fashioned Catharsis

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.”

Play Games Lost Childhood Football Video Family Love

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.”

Thinking Childhood Better Off Twisted

Author:Anthony Shadid

“You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Childhood Dangerous Our Children Your Children

Author:Mike Lookinland

“There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.”

Childhood Periods

Author:Edward Hoagland

“I had a very happy childhood.”

Childhood Very Happy

Author:Juan Antonio Bayona

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