Childhood Quotes - Page 4

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.