Childhood Years Quotes
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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
— William Gibson
Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.
— Erin Merryn
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
— Samuel Richardson
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
— Maria Montessori
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
— Sara Canning
I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
— C.S. Lewis
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
— Plato
Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?
— Annie Ernaux
I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.
— Woody Allen
The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there.
— Siri Hustvedt
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
— Christopher Morley
What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I found out Alpo was dog food. — Rodney Dangerfield
Substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one
— Alexander McCall Smith
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
— Rachel Carson
Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.
— Brandon Shire
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
— Anthony Bourdain
The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.
— Vladimir Nabokov
During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
— Pattie Boyd
Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.
— Lynne Rae Perkins
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
— Robert Carlyle
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
— Amy Sherman-Palladino
This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.
— Dr. Kid Brain
My whole life, you have made decisions for me.""Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years. — Sarah MacLean
My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
— Ross Macdonald
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
— Joyce Maynard
The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.
— Sebastian Barry
We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
— Giacomo Leopardi
He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
— Rebecca McNutt
My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.
— Bryant H. McGill
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
— Martha Graham
Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.
— Catherine Lacey
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
— James Rosenquist
These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.
— Francesca Marciano
What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?
— Michael Pollan
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
— Sherman Alexie
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
— Sylvia Plath
I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
— Rik Mayall
... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.
— Alan Bradley
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
— Eleanor Farjeon
Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.
— Tina Yothers
You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
— Colin Trevorrow
