Childhood Quotes - Page 45

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.