Childhood Quotes - Page 28

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

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.

Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

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

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.