Top 1200 Joys Of Childhood Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

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

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

I have been tagged mischievous since childhood and was known as a prankster.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I always dreamt of being a Tollywood actress since childhood.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.

I was always fascinated by the stand-up comedy shows from my childhood.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

I love Boston, and I had a very lovely childhood in Massachusetts.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

In fact, in childhood, I was scared to watch a film in a dark theatre.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

I'm lucky to have very close friends that I've had since childhood.

Since childhood, I wanted to be a hero, but now, I want to be an actor.

I've lived in Chennai from childhood. But, honestly, I didn't know the Royapuram side at all.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

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

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.

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

I love dancing, which I've been learning since childhood.

One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's only as the show goes on that you realize how they interconnect. They're all moving towards one another inexorably, to meet at a certain point.

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

A handsome period of my childhood was spent at our house in Tollygunge.

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.