Quotes About Childhood

If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.

before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.