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I think we all miss our childhood. -- Rory Culkin
What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now. -- Jon Heder
I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy. -- Brad Goreski
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. -- Marcel Proust
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. -- Vinoba Bhave
I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. -- Joseph Murray
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood. -- Joel Fuhrman
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. -- Kary Mullis
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years. -- Lucy Larcom
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. -- Lewis Thomas
We carry our childhood with us. -- Gary D.
All of us are products of our childhood. -- Michael Jackson
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. -- Stephen King
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal. -- Maya Rudolph
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. -- Tom Stoppard
We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. -- Harville Hendrix
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. -- Robert Breault
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. -- Marcel Carne
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. -- Maya Lin
They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. -- Curtis Joseph
The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. -- Vanessa Paradis
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous -- John le Carre
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. -- Stephen King
You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood. -- Toba Beta
Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. -- Kathy Mckeon
Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth. -- Sara Shandler
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. -- Frank Herbert
We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. -- Lynn Grabhorn
All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing. -- Rian Johnson
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. -- Richard Rogers
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It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. -- Mercedes Lackey
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. -- James Hillman
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. -- Alain de Botton
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. -- Sam Ewing
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open. -- W. G. Sebald
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us. -- Evan Meekins
It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences. -- Claudia Black
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. -- Barry Hughart
I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion. -- John Lydon
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood. -- John Dufresne
I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood. -- Takashi Miike
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. -- Richard Eyre
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. -- Alice Miller
You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate. -- Alexa Vega
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather. -- Bernard Levin
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. -- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth. -- May-Britt Moser
Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood. -- Danny DeVito
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together -- Tennessee Williams
When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships. -- Cortney S. Warren
Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious. -- Renee Fredrickson
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood. -- Edmund White
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame. -- Maureen Corrigan
You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. -- Tamsin Greig
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had. -- John Updike
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. -- Rita Dove
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back. -- Tea Obreht
There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that. -- John Darnielle
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books. -- Tess Gerritsen
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss. -- John Irving
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference. -- Roman Abramovich
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. -- Derek Jacobi
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. -- Ayn Rand
There are many heartfelt reasons for pushing our childhood sexual abuse to the edge of our lives and one amazing reason to embrace a healing journey;it reunites us with our shining, colorful, joyful spirit." -- Jeanne McElvaney
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. -- Alice Miller
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. -- Homaro Cantu
The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous. -- Mike Lookinland
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life. -- O. R. Melling
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories. -- Robert Crais
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere. -- Graham Greene
Life with God is wilder than the wildest roller coaster ride, and safer than your childhood bedroom. It's more thrilling than the greatest adventure, and more delicious than an Italian cappuccino--if you can even believe it. -- Stephanie May Wilson
That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood. -- Tom Segev
I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn't still have that same dream. -- Dominic Cooper
They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up. -- Brett Ratner
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through. -- Jeremy Sisto
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! -- Charles Dickens
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. -- Patrick Rothfuss
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. -- Mary Lou Retton
Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed? -- Anne Sexton
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to control our thoughts but many people don't do it because they get pleasure in their fantasies. -- Ali Sina
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. -- Jason Reitman
It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever. -- Lucy Larcom
Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . . -- Vincent Canby
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower -- Paul Verlaine
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. -- Nhat Hanh
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales. -- Paul Auster
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...? -- Anne Lamott
Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed. -- Harville Hendrix
When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold. -- Richard Louv
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. -- Jakob Bohme
The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds. -- Diablo Cody
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. -- Howie Mandel
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life. -- Octavia Spencer
People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time. -- Bryce Harper
How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes. -- Gaston Bachelard
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. -- John le Carre
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All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently. -- Heyward Bruce Ewart III
Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life. -- Rhonda Byrne
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'. -- Michael Morpurgo
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them. -- Natasha Richardson
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time. -- Sadie Jones
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder. -- Doug Henning
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.' -- Michael Morpurgo
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness. -- Cecil Frances Alexander
And I couldn't help wondering where the hell the fatherland was, what exactly were we fighting for? Did I find out? Ah, that's a good point. It may sound strange, but from talking to the other militiamen I realised it was our childhood memories we were fighting for. -- Andrés Neuman
For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means? -- Milan Kundera
At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood. -- Jeff Cooper
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. -- Robert Redford
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time. -- M. Ward
Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood. -- Alison Gopnik

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