Explore Quotes on Childhood

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

I spent many years of my childhood in Wyoming County and my roots are deep there.

A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.

It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

When I think about my childhood, one thing comes to mind: Love.

I'm very emotion-based, I approach character very much from the heart. Building up their heart, their inner world, their imagination, their childhood memories, their dreams.

When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I suppose, but you learn on the job really.