Childhood Quotes - Page 23

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.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.

The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

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

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.