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Childhood Quotes

I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food. I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had mothers who cooked three meals a day for food, and I sacrificed a childhood for food and grew up in immense shame.

Food Day Childhood People Three Up

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

Education Childhood Face Early Moral

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Today Childhood Poverty Enemies AIDS

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

Faith Childhood Imagination Tough

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

Change Time Childhood I Am Child Me

Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

Children Childhood Rise Place Years

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Morning Age Childhood Memory Song

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

Sharon Salzberg

Family Childhood Death College Loss

The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett.

Childhood Me Person Inspired Most

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

Childhood Parents Heroes Would

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Work Nature Time Childhood Progress

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Positive Childhood Environmental Body

Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

Family Childhood Words Friends You

Since early childhood, I've been trying to learn all I can. Science is everything; it's not just physics. It's the way of understanding your environment, the world around you.

Science Childhood World Learn You

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

Childhood I Am Problem Obesity Real

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Roger Ross Williams

Childhood Reality Kind My Own Own

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Family Depression Childhood Death Up

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Music Childhood Loved Remember Long

'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

Karin Slaughter

God Alone Childhood Flowers Me Wind

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

Jennifer Nettles

Love Childhood College Television

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

Debbie Reynolds

Childhood Loved Living Wonderful Had

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

Holly Marie Combs

Best Childhood Baby You Ready Way

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'

Age Childhood School Happy Think

Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Children Time Childhood Better Dead

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