Childhood Quotes - Page 47

Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary, but if I am told it had to happen because you are such a wonderful person that I couldn't possibly resist your charms, or because we are so incredibly compatible, then necessity seems very romantic.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.