Quotes About Childhood

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

I've wanted to make movies ever since I was a kid. I knew that was my goal.

My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die.

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.