Childhood Quotes - Page 63

In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Childhood is but change made gay and visible.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

I had a happy childhood.

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable

I had an amazing childhood.