- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood Quotes
On memory, nostalgia, and the years that shaped us.
This collection captures childhood in very different forms, a self-sufficient upbringing with a cow and vegetable gardens, and a holiday that has slowly lost its old magic as it grew more secular. See Hope quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very messianic childhood.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped to visit Kenya.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they're like, 'Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?' I'm like, 'No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.'
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020