Childhood Quotes

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

~ Kate Klise

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

~ J. G. Ballard

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

~ Harold Ramis

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

~ Sigmund Freud

Childhood is a short season.

~ Helen Hayes

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

~ Bob Filner

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

~ Susie Bright

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

~ Bill Cosby

I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.

~ Kaley Cuoco

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

~ Mitt Romney

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

~ Jeff Kinney

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

~ Buzz Aldrin

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

~ Virginia Woolf

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

~ Charles Dickens

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

~ Taylor Swift

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

~ Richard Dawkins

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

~ May-Britt Moser

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

~ Whitley Strieber

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

~ Stephen Curry

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

~ Paul Ryan

Play is the work of childhood.

~ Jean Piaget

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

~ Ahmed Zewail

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

~ Diane Ackerman

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

~ Flip Wilson

We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they're worried about. They know it's going to happen at some point.

~ Lee Unkrich

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

~ Curtis Joseph

When it came to my childhood - growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially - my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.

~ Misty Copeland

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

~ Susan Hayward

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

~ Louise J. Kaplan

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

~ David Elkind

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.

~ Darius Rucker

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

~ Jemima Khan

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

~ Ray Charles

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

~ Olga Kurylenko

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

~ Pindar

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

~ Ambrose Bierce

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

~ Rachel Stevens