Quotes About Childhood

Girls are born weaned and boys don't ever get weaned.

No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was white.

Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.

Fox was quick to see how we could use you, but not sharp enough to credit you with ambition. But then he never lay all night with you on the beach at Kamakura, never listened to your nightmares, never heard an entire imagined childhood shift under those stars, shift and roll over, your child's mouth opening to reveal some fresh past, and always the one, you swore, that was really and finally the truth.

I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride. And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

Bu, bir vahÅŸiydi. Ve bu vahÅŸinin kiÅŸiliÄŸi, eskiden k?sa pantolon ve gömlek giyen çocuÄŸun kiÅŸiliÄŸiyle özdeÅŸleÅŸemiyordu.

He was so delighted he stood on his head. And this is one of the ways small boys show they're delighted, they stand on their head and waggle their feet in the air.

It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys.

The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends' marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.

The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.

Era como volver a ser niña, aunque no lo fuera. No hay nada comparable a ser niño. Ser niño es solo ser. Después, cuando lo pensamos, lo convertimos en juventud.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

The early years of a Bes (and presumably an Ul Qoman) child are intense learnings of cues. We pick up styles of clothing, permissible colours, ways of walking and holding oneself, very fast. Before we were eight or so most of us could be trusted not to breach embarrassingly and illegally, though licence of course is granted children every moment they are in the street.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy. If a person could make them feel that way, they'd bind themselves to him—or her—forever.

Like many Indian children, I grew up on the vast, varied, and fascinating tales of the Mahabharat.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you. No matter how famous or powerful they became, my husbands would always long to be cherished. They would always yearn to feel worthy.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.