Quotes about Our Childhood

I think we all miss our childhood. Votes: 4

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now. Votes: 4

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy. Votes: 4

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Votes: 4

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. Votes: 4

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. Votes: 4

Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood. Votes: 4

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. Votes: 4

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years. Votes: 4

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. Votes: 4

We carry our childhood with us. Votes: 3

All of us are products of our childhood. Votes: 3

the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful. Votes: 3

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. Votes: 3

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal. Votes: 3

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Votes: 3

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. Votes: 3

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. Votes: 3

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. Votes: 3

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Votes: 3

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. Votes: 3

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. Votes: 3

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous Votes: 3

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke. Votes: 3

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. Votes: 3

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. Votes: 3

You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood. Votes: 3

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. Votes: 3

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth. Votes: 3

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Votes: 3

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. Votes: 3

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing. Votes: 3

The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. Votes: 3

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. Votes: 3

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. Votes: 3

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. Votes: 3

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. Votes: 3

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. Votes: 3

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. Votes: 3

No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. Votes: 3

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. Votes: 3

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us. Votes: 3

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences. Votes: 3

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. Votes: 3

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. Votes: 3

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood. Votes: 3

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. Votes: 3

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate. Votes: 3

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth. Votes: 3

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood. Votes: 3

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together Votes: 3

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. Votes: 3

I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had. Votes: 3

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that. Votes: 3

My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books. Votes: 3

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. Votes: 3

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. Votes: 3

There are many heartfelt reasons for pushing our childhood sexual abuse to the edge of our lives and one amazing reason to embrace a healing journey;it reunites us with our shining, colorful, joyful spirit." Votes: 3

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. Votes: 3

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life. Votes: 3

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories. Votes: 3

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Votes: 3

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed? Votes: 3

Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies. Votes: 3

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. Votes: 3

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever. Votes: 3

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . . Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Votes: 3

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales. Votes: 3

What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...? Votes: 3

Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. Votes: 3

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold. Votes: 3

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes. Votes: 3

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time. Votes: 3

Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder. Votes: 3

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.' Votes: 3

Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. Votes: 3

And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for. Votes: 3

For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? Votes: 3

At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Life is the childhood of our immortality. Votes: 2

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. Votes: 2

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood. Votes: 2

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. Votes: 2

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. Votes: 2

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. Votes: 2

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all. Votes: 2

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. Votes: 2

This life is but the childhood of our immortality. Votes: 0

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. Votes: 0

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood. Votes: 0

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. Votes: 0

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Votes: 0

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. Votes: 0

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. Votes: 0

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. Votes: 0

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. Votes: 0

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital. Votes: 0

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. Votes: 0

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. Votes: 0

The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program. Votes: 0

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. Votes: 0

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? Votes: 0

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. Votes: 0

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, Votes: 0

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time. Votes: 0

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood. Votes: 0

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. Votes: 0

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Votes: 0

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood. Votes: 0

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it. Votes: 0

Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play. Votes: 0

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom. Votes: 0

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams. Votes: 0

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower. Votes: 0

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood. Votes: 0

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. Votes: 0

Almond Joys are a childhood favorite, but most of us could do without all those grams of sugar, especially when trying to instill healthy habits in our kids. Votes: 0

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child. Votes: 0

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic. Votes: 0

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health. Votes: 0

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Votes: 0

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment. Votes: 0

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats. Votes: 0

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds. Votes: 0