Top 100 Quotes About Your Childhood
#1. You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
Kim Stanley Robinson
#2. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
Bryce Harper
#3. They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.
Brett Ratner
#4. If You Want To Learn About LOVE,Happiness And Joy, Please Go To Your Childhood and Learn.
Sushil Singh
#7. The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.
Paul Feig
#8. Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.
Patrick Dempsey
#9. Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.
Bill Burr
#11. Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#12. You cannot act in the old way, as you got used to, as you have been programmed in your childhood, you will have to change yourself or otherwise you will not survive
Sunday Adelaja
#14. And children are still the way you were ... as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#15. she said, "thank you for your childhood.
Lois Lowry
#16. Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way
and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#17. Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
Your childhood is a bower:
Let my fingers wander in the moss
Where glows the rosebud
Let me among the clean grasses
Drink the drops of dew
Which sprinkle the tender flower
Paul Verlaine
#18. What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?"
"Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I'm used to that.
Ayn Rand
#19. A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.
Ann Hood
#20. Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
#21. 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.
Mary Lou Retton
#22. I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
Robert Redford
#23. ... It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
Thomas Harris
#24. When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing
#25. All a starred review amounts to is an expression of brand loyalty, an assertion of personal preference for one brand of literature above another. It is as hopelessly beside the point as giving four stars to your mother, three stars to your childhood, or two stars to your cat.
Eleanor Catton
#26. You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
Tamsin Greig
#27. Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult - in any way - something in your childhood dies.
John Irving
#28. Your childhood friends are the ones you should hang on to. They know you in a way that nobody else does.
Morgan Matson
#29. A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
Tea Obreht
#30. What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer
#31. You see yourself as if old and wise.
I see you really miss your childhood.
Toba Beta
#32. Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.
Stephen King
#33. In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
Jeremy Sisto
#34. If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up, that is also great! Fables represent imagination and imagination represents everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.
Rajneesh
#36. One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
Tom Felton
#37. Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.
Rhonda Byrne
#38. Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Barry Hughart
#39. It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.
Claudia Black
#40. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Gregory Maguire
#41. All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.
Eyvind Kang
#42. You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
Idina Menzel
#43. I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
Pam Ferris
#44. It's funny how much of your childhood is about proximity.
Jenny Han
#45. If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it ... you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.
Leon Uris
#46. If you need to talk about your childhood, you're safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I'm right here, Lev. I'll find them all, I'm good at details, and I'll put you back together. You're safe here.
Christine Feehan
#47. You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.
Wyck Godfrey
#48. I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
Marcel Carne
#49. Have mercy, O Lord, on my children,
In my children,
Call to mind your childhood,
You who were a child.
Let them that are like your childhood
Be saved by your grace.
Ephrem The Syrian
#50. There's nothing worse than the day you find out that your parents are nasty, horny mortals like everyone else. It just kills your childhood.
Candice Raquel Lee
#51. But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.
William Trevor
#52. The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
Vanessa Paradis
#53. And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!
C. JoyBell C.
#54. I feel sorry for tribes that used to be cannibals but then stopped when the Christians came and inevitably ruined everything, because it would suck to be nostalgic for the comfort food of your childhood but then never have it again because now it's suddenly not cool to eat your dead uncle.
Jenny Lawson
#55. You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.
Michael Dibdin
#57. Are there some things we need to discuss or work on together?" "Do you have pain from your childhood?" "Is there anything we can do about it now?" "Can we heal together?
Karyl McBride
#58. No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
Federico Fellini
#59. I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.
John Lydon
#60. Beating heroin was child's play compared to beating your childhood. When
Stephen King
#61. Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
May-Britt Moser
#62. Life with God is wilder than the wildest roller coaster ride, and safer than your childhood bedroom. It's more thrilling than the greatest adventure, and more delicious than an Italian cappuccino--if you can even believe it.
Stephanie May Wilson
#64. You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
Anthony Doerr
#65. The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.
Diablo Cody
#66. To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
Maya Rudolph
#67. A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Richard Eyre
#68. The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
Richard Rogers
#69. Subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend but Were Afraid to Ask.
Wendy McClure
#70. They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
Curtis Joseph
#71. To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.
Roman Abramovich
#72. The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.
Mike Lookinland
#73. It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya Lin
#74. You forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood ...
John Geddes
#75. I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.
Edmund White
#76. Well my favorite thing about being a mom is getting to relive your childhood all over again, that's one of my favorite things. And my favorite thing about being a wife? I have more freedom to just be crazy, because he's already stuck with me.
Nicole Richie
#77. And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
Rainer Maria Rilke
#78. The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
John Dufresne
#79. If you answered, 'Spin the Bottle,' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.
Dave Barry
#80. And I know that your childhood wasn't all that great-that you felt a lot of pain,and that you are in a lot of pain right now. But maybe you have to go through all that so you'll learn just how important having a happy childhood can be, so you will provide one for our daughter.
Matthew Quick
#81. Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go.
Johnny Depp
#82. You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.
Sanford Meisner
#83. You invite a time in the near future when you are no longer building your life on the unknown influences of your childhood sexual abuse.
Jeanne McElvaney
#84. When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.
Joyce Meyer
#85. Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.
Kathy Mckeon
#86. One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward
#87. It is rare in a working environment that someone says, Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday but before that I need a compelling account of your childhood.
David Coleman
#88. Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.
Renee Fredrickson
#89. Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#90. I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn't still have that same dream.
Dominic Cooper
#91. Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Saint Augustine
#92. It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
Mercedes Lackey
#93. If you've heard of Freezy Freakies gloves, Hans and Karl Reichstetter know this about you: You were probably born in the 1970s or early 1980s and you probably spent your childhood in the Northeast.
Anonymous
#95. Never let go of your childhood
dreams. Anything is possible if you believe it enough to work at it with all your heart.
Seye Oke
#96. And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.
Paul Zindel
#97. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard
#98. A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
Pam Brown
#99. Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.
Carsten Jensen
#100. What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?
Tim O'Brien
