Quotes About Childhood

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls were really alive.