Childhood Quotes

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

From my earliest childhood memories, Clarence Ray Allen imparted the most loving, giving and generous grandfatherly spirit.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

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

The childhood obesity trend is on the rise and has been for decades.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

It?s an opportunity to fulfill a childhood dream. A lot of people don?t really get to fulfill those things and this is an opportunity that comes once in a lifetime.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

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

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.

He identified with Perry Smith, ... Perry Smith had a terrible childhood. Perry's was much worse than Truman's. Perry was really, really miserable. Truman's was just really miserable. But the loneliness--both of them shared this loneliness.

It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.

The perpetuation of these circumstances deprives Elian of his childhood, and Juan Miguel of his right to raise his family. These losses are irreplaceable, and weigh heavily in favor of declining to impose a stay or injunction.

It's a childhood dream to be in the final.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night... or find food... you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

The foundation is just everything. Throughout my childhood, my parents were always behind me in everything I wanted to do. Having the support behind me made me strive and keep striving and just have that no-fear attitude. ... We do everything together.

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

I realized that moment that for me, my childhood was over.