Top 1200 Childhood Friend Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.

To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our national rights; and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and Constitution of the states. I am the enemy of all foreign influence, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of liberty-this is the only republic on earth." "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.

My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Animals are the traditional circus. It's what people remember from their childhood.

Since my childhood, I dreamed of wearing the Black and Yellow.

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Childhood. I wish I had something to complain about.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

My mother was originally from Yorkshire and I spent a lot of my childhood there.

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

I have been exposed to the Afghan culture since childhood.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Corporations are people, my friend... Of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

You may not have faith in my friend fate, But my friend fate has faith in you.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and believing what is true should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will regard it as a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be even more friendly and will reveal Himself to him more graciously than ever.

I ended up living in fear for most of my childhood.

My mom said my whole childhood... was stop and go.

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend ? perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.