Childhood Quotes - page 3

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same. (Norman Wisdom)
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. View quote
Rachel Kushner
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. View quote
Robert Carlyle
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it. View quote
Simon Pegg
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. View quote
Bill Cosby
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. View quote
James Hillman
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. (Joseph Murray)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. View quote
Berkeley Breathed
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. View quote
Sam Ewing
There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. View quote
Cleveland Amory
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. View quote
Art Linkletter
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. View quote
Charley Pride
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. View quote
David Gest
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. View quote
Frederick Reines
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. (Harold Ramis)
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. View quote
Lorna Luft
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. View quote
Mary Lou Retton
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. View quote
Nolan Ryan
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton