childhood quotes

• Where once my careless childhood strayed,/ A stranger yet to pain. (Thomas Gray) [childhood/stranger/pain]
• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. ( Socrates) [childhood/youth/age/prudent]
• 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. (Maria Callas) [right/age/childhood/responsibility]
• Genius is childhood recaptured. (Jean Baudrillard) [genius/childhood]
• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [experience/love/childhood/youth]
• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [childhood/fishing/reality]
• Life is the childhood of our immortality. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [life/childhood/immortality]
• Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of. (William Golding) [childhood/disease]
• 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. (Soren Kierkegaard) [time/childhood]
• 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. (Soren Kierkegaard) [childhood/sorrow]
• 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. (William Somerset Maugham) [childhood/character/opinion]
• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. (John Milton) [childhood/morning/day]
• Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. (John Milton) [childhood/morning/day]
• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. (Pablo Picasso) [genius/genius/childhood/child]
• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ( Plutarch) [men/state/childhood]
• Childhood is the sleep of reason. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [childhood]
• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. ( Socrates) [childhood/youth/age/prudent]
• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. (Gertrude Stein) [people/childhood]
• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. (Henry David Thoreau) [dreams/childhood/memory/language]
• That great Cathedral space which was childhood. (Virginia Woolf) [childhood]
• I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask. (Drew Barrymore) [childhood/time/sex]
• I had a great childhood. I had such fun. (Nastassja Kinski) [childhood]
• Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. (Liv Tyler) [childhood/wild/people/housing]
• It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men. (Ben Kingsley) [objective/childhood/life/men]
• I don't want to be stuck in one spot. My childhood was spent moving around. We were total nomads. Like gypsies, just moving from one place to another all the time. That's kind of ingrained into my psyche, into my being. I couldn't stand being in one spot for too long. (Johnny Depp) [childhood/time/being/being]
• During my time with Laura Dern, we studied with an acting teacher in Lenox, Massachussetts. It was deep emotional work, going back and unlocking stuff from childhood. (Kyle MacLachlan) [time/childhood]
• If I had somebody to show me that it was OK to be creative and explore your artistic interests as opposed to having to be the toughest guy in the neighborhood, I think I would have had a different childhood. (Mark Wahlberg) [think/childhood]
• Well, my parents always spoke lovingly about their childhood, so maybe I was trying to live parts of my father's childhood. (Stanley Tucci) [parents/childhood/childhood]
• We had a really terrific childhood. It was a very happy time. We had lots of animals-dogs, guinea pigs, and so on, but no cats. Mother didn't like cats. (Blythe Danner) [childhood/time/mother]
• I was with the Groundlings, like my dad. Peepers is actually a character I've done since childhood, when my parents got divorced. (Chris Kattan) [character/childhood/parents]
• “It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.” (Fran Drescher) [people/childhood]

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