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Quotes About Childhood

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.
~ John Assaraf
Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.
~ Claes Oldenburg
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
~ Brian Eno
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
~ Karel Appel
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.
~ Alton Tobey
I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
~ Michael Leunig
I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
~ Donnie Yen
I went to art school when I was little.
~ Amanda Seyfried
I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
~ Narciso Rodriguez
When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.
~ Noel Fielding
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
~ Andre Breton
To make a child laugh, you don't have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
~ Rob McClure
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
~ Barbara Kruger
In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.
~ Unknown
I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.
~ Lennox Lewis
upset or disturb them. The minor problems they encountered were always instantly buffered and solved. Annabelle had grown up in a sacred, golden world, a happy child, among kind, loving people. The past few months had been exciting for her, although tempered by a recent disappointment.
~ Danielle Steel
Once there was a little doll. Her name was Edith. She lived in a nice house and had everything she needed except somebody to play with. She was very lonely!
~ Unknown
Her black eyes picked up a touch of green from her sweater, transforming them into the eerie night forest color of childhood terrors.
~ Unknown
I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
~ Darren Shan
Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.
~ Dave Barry
As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
~ Dave Barry
If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
~ Dave Eggers