Quotes About Childhood

For the story that shapes a child's universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a burning fairy tale can govern behavior as truly as remembered fire will caution against fire forever. —WALTER WANGERIN

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

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.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.