Childhood Quotes - Page 39

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

I had a great childhood. I had such fun.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

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.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.