Top 25 Common Childhood Sayings
#1. Sisters share the scent and smells ... the feel of a common childhood.
Pam Brown
#2. I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.
Joyce Cary
#3. The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
N.D. Wilson
#4. I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.
Michael Palin
#5. We theorize about what goes on in the brain, but it is mostly undiscovered country. A writer's work is to coax the stuff out and see how it plays. Surprise, as I have often said, is everything.
Ray Bradbury
#7. I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.
Beatrix Potter
#8. Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Jung
#9. Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
Robert Winston
#10. I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
William Graham Sumner
#11. But what do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?
Jonathan Franzen
#12. In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run throughout and repeat: the family dinners, nature walks, reading together at bedtime, Saturday morning pancakes.
Kim John Payne
#13. I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
John Cameron
#14. We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
Marianne Williamson
#16. From his childhood on he had had an obstinate nature and his name became a byword for virtue and truthfulness. "That's incredible, even if Cato says so," was a common expression.
Anthony Everitt
#17. 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.
Giorgio De Chirico
#18. Childhood was our common mythology.
Bia Lowe
#19. For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
The Edge
#20. MEANEY: Do you ever miss having that being-out-in-the-world job environment? ELLIS: God, no. Have you ever been out in the world? It's full of fucking people. If there's one thing I hate, it's people.
Patrick Meaney
#21. We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
Jerry Doyle
#22. Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
Bill Callahan
#24. It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.
Yukio Mishima
#25. A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.
Bell Hooks
