Childhood Quotes - Page 48

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama is trying to do.... But I also find that I have to be very passionate myself about the issue to be able to represent it well. One of the big issues that I've talked a lot about...is childhood health, nutrition and obesity.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.