- Matter
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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
- Loser
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to say something really cool, because I did film studies. So, like, a Jean-Luc Goddard film - something like that. But I genuinely would love to be in 'Titanic.' I'm such a loser. That's, like, my childhood film. Like, I love it.
- Hardship
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- Nov 07, 2020
The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, the America of my childhood I'm not convinced is available anymore to my own children, and that is a significant motivation to want to go out and do something better for them and rest of my neighbors in Colorado.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very hard training during our childhood and I don't want to live it again.
- Nov 07, 2020
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020