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Quotes About Childhood

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
~ Meg Tilly
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
~ Samuel Richardson
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.
~ George Eastman
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
~ G. Stanley Hall
What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.
~ Richard Griffiths
I started doing well at Villa when I was six or seven.
~ Jack Grealish
I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
~ Yves Chauvin
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
~ Nadia Murad
I grew up in a mud house, in a small village.
~ Ram Nath Kovind
When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The only thing we share is Michael Jackson. That's how far his music travelled - to a remote village on the other side of the world.
~ Alek Wek
I grew up in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, a small village near Barcelona. My house was near the countryside, so there was a lot of nature, and at the same time my village is surrounded by factories. That conditioned me a little bit.
~ Rosalia
Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.
~ Dennis Skinner
I'd spent my first 12 years in New York in an East Village walk-up. The upstairs neighbor was the cowboy from the Village People.
~ Amy Chozick
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
~ Andrea Bocelli
I try to find some time for my horses. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
~ Andrea Bocelli
It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
~ Jimmy Cliff
The Dorset coast, where I spent my childhood, is a gorgeous place to run. I love to explore and revisit places like the cliffs at Kimmeridge Bay and the abandoned village of Tyneham.
~ Freddie Fox
I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.
~ Peter Stormare
I wanted to open up a stand to sell dried fruit and beef jerky where we lived in Greenwich Village. I was 8 years old. I had been flipping through TV channels and got mesmerized by this infomercial for a food dehydrator.
~ Neil Blumenthal
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
~ Eric Clapton
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
~ Simon Newcomb
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
~ Kirsty Gallacher
Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.
~ Bong Joon-ho