Best 2381 quotes in «childhood quotes» category

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

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.

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

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

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

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

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

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

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

Childhood is messy and beautiful.