My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
~By Amy Tan ~
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
~By Art Linkletter ~
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
~By Patsy Cline ~
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
~By Chester Bennington ~
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
~By Anita Diament ~
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
~By Adam Savage ~
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
~By Max Muller ~
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
My whole family actually, but my parents. 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.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
~By Patty Duke ~
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
~By Lee Grant ~
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
~By Thomas Keller ~
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
~By Henry Williamson ~
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
~By William Golding ~
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.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
~By Frank McCourt ~
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
~By Fran Drescher ~
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.
~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
~By Jeff Ament ~
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
~By Kate Adie ~
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
~By Paula Danziger ~
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
~By Brian Aldiss ~
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
~By Natasha Richardson ~
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
~By Henry Winkler ~
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
~By Peter Straub ~
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
~By Don DeLillo ~
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
~By Rory Bremner ~
I didn't have a happy childhood.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~By Marion C. Garretty ~
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
~By George Will ~
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
~By Andrew Wiles ~
The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.
~By Marguerite Kelly ~
I look back to a happy childhood.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
~By Alice Miller ~
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
~By Maria Callas ~
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
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.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
~By Donna Brazile ~
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
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.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
~By Ray Charles ~
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
~By Herbert Gold ~
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
~By Dennis Potter ~
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
~By Paris Hilton ~
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
~By Edna O'Brien ~
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.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
I gave up my childhood for a career.
~By Brenda Lee ~
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Childhood is a short season.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
~By James Hillman ~
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
~By Maya Lin ~
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
~By Harry Stack Sullivan ~
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
~By Dennis Potter ~
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
~By Ned Rorem ~
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
~By Tina Yothers ~
That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.
~By Dwayne Hickman ~
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
~By Eleanor Porter ~
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
~By Corey Feldman ~
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~By Graham Greene ~
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
~By Antonia Fraser ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
~By Susie Bright ~
The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
~By Eleanor Farjeon ~
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
~By E. B. White ~
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
~By Louise Bogan ~
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
~By William H. Macy ~
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
~By Marcel Carne ~
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