Quotes: Childhood

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren’t monsters, but it wasn’t a good childhood.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

I’m aware of what kids like because I’m constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.