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Childhood Quotes

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life Childhood Down Bear Hard Years

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - people are reminded of their childhood.

Simple Childhood Simplicity People

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Childhood Happy Born Never Slave

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

Childhood Secrets Explain Tell Who

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.

Music Childhood Mom Violin Piano

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

Childhood Unhappy Say Nothing Like

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

Vanessa Ferlito

Time Childhood Child Parents Own

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Sea Childhood Me Rose Youth Years

Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

Good Music Hero Childhood Hat Rest

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.

Childhood Small House Small Town Out

People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

Myself Childhood People Me Obstacles

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Childhood Balance Green Think Feel

I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.

Clemantine Wamariya

Mother Childhood Lunch Loved Wish

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Childhood Imagination Happy Leisure

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

Childhood Me Growing Up Table Actor

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

Mary Steenburgen

Father Girl Heart Childhood Little

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Childhood Consistency You Want Same

I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.

Childhood Gift Act Got Film Idol

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

Childhood Thought Rough Fact Than

I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.

Robert J. Sawyer

Childhood Me Writing More Engage

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

Childhood Career Choice Acting Go

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Business Childhood Inside Solemn

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Valentina Tereshkova

Love Dreams Time Sky Childhood Rest

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.

Childhood Fun Win Winning Back Goes

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