I Thought As A Child Quotes

#1. When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things ... I must be scientific.

Philip K. Dick

#2. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Amanda Hocking

#3. I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.

Blake Lively

#4. I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Rita Dove

#5. As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.

Allen Toussaint

#6. What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother
pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Rhonda Riley

#7. I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Diana Ross

#8. As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. Love requires an Object
But this varies so much
Almost, I imagine
anything will do:
When I was a child I
Loved a pumping engine
Thought it every bit as
Beautiful as you

Wystan H. Auden,

#10. I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought!

Stephen Richards

#11. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

Anne Lamott

#12. I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

#13. I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

Chris Kluwe

#14. I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time.

Ken Bruen

#15. As they lifted off, Aaron watched the white, puffy clouds and thought, "I'm going to die here. This is it." But God had a lot more for this child of mine, more than he could have ever imagined...

Diana Mankin Phelps

#16. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

Kathryn Lasky

#17. As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

Kiki Smith

#18. All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen

#19. The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

Ina Garten

#20. As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

Pippa Evans

#22. I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.

Eve Hewson

#23. As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

Natsuki Takaya

#24. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things.

Gregory Benford

#25. Are you a Christian? she said.

I answered:
I am a Christian, I am a Jew, I am a Catholic, I am Muslim.

I am each and everyone of you my child, look into the mirror and you will see me,
as i see you..

Faruk H.T.

#26. The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

Conn Iggulden

#27. I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

Guy Davenport

#28. I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.

Lisa See

#29. I've often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there's a fight to be won. If a
woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

Karen Hawkins

#30. As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

Kim Thuy

#31. I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

Richard Rogers

#32. As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.

Augusten Burroughs

#33. All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

Percy Grainger

#34. I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Karl Lagerfeld

#35. I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.

Matthea Harvey

#36. My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.

Kenna

#37. For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

Keegan-Michael Key

#38. As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was.

Nicolas Barreau

#39. As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

Philip Larkin

#40. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Marisa Berenson

#41. As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Reynolds Price

#42. That he was actually born into a giant fortune, all his life hadn't had any use for this giant fortune, had always been unhappy with this giant fortune, I thought. That his parents had been unable, as they say, to open his eyes, that they were the ones who depressed the child, I thought.

Thomas Bernhard

#43. I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.

Johnny Depp

#44. When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, acted as a child. But now that I am and adult i put my childish ways behind me.

Anonymous

#45. I lay there and I thought of what that teacher said, and of all the things I'd been: child, rebellious teenager, runaway, whore, lover, bad mother, bad wife. I'm not sure if I can remake myself as a good wife, but a good mother - that I have to try.

Paula Hawkins

#46. For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

Rory Kinnear

#47. I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.

Philip Treacy

#48. In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

Daniel Tammet

#49. As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.

Elie Wiesel

#50. Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

Robert Aickman

#51. As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. My

Margot Lee Shetterly

#52. Even as a child, he said, I knew I wasn't what the others thought but not what I thought, either. I said to myself: I'm another thing, a thing hidden in the veins, it has no name and waits.

Elena Ferrante