Childhood Quotes - Page 2

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

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

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

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

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.