Childhood Quotes - Page 5

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.