Quotes of: Childhood Keyword

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us. -MUKTA

The Color of our Sky

The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

The world would be a brighter, happier place, if we could only remember our childhood wonder.

Freya's Child

I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.

God Help the Child

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Goodnight June

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

Grendel

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

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

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

Pete Wentz

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Taiye Selasi

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Robert Webb

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.

Demi Lovato

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

I Remain in Darkness

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

It

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Riding the Torch

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

Sleepeth Not, the Bastard