Childhood Quotes - Page 6

Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that define the regions of our land-to encourage and promote their use in appropriate areas, and thus help pass on to generation in waiting the quiet jobs and satisfactions I have known since my childhood.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

All of us are products of our childhood.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.