Childhood Quotes - Page 24

• I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

  Dido Armstrong

  Decision, Stories, Able

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• I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Important, Identity, Principles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

  George Orwell

  Country, Real, Book

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

  Tayeb Salih

  World, States, Endless

  Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.88, Heinemann

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• My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

  Peter Diamandis

  Dream, Effort, Humanity

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Just as family therapists today find that child abuse often functions to hold families together as a way of solving their emotional problems, so, too, the routine assault of children has been society's most effective way of maintaining its collective emotional homeostasis.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Emotional, Humanity

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• My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

  Sadie Frost

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  "The Personal History of David Copperfield".

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• I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

  Richard Griffiths

  Parent, Dumb, Speech

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Age, Different

  Elie Wiesel (1990). “From the kingdom of memory: reminiscences”, Pocket Books

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• The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Tombstone, Writing

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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• The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

  Bret Harte

  Children, Expression, Gravity

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• I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Eye, Appreciate

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• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

  Stanley Donen

  Long, Southern, Stories

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• I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.

  Tre Cool

  Mean, Appreciate, Parent

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• A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Play, Good As It Gets

  "This is as good as it gets" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2008.

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• Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

  Simon Callow

  Facts, Influence, Bigs

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• I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

  Tre Cool

  Mean, Normal

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• I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Years, House

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

  Alex Flinn

  Fun, Kids, Play

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Life Lesson, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

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• If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Kids, Play

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.

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• My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

  Rebecca Hall

  Good Friend, Parent, Secret

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  Dave Foley

  Malls

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