Childhood Quotes - Page 11

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone--childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.

There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Childhood is a short season.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.