1039 Childhood Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Family Surrounded Very Close Childhood Gregarious

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options. Steve Allen

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?' Steven Wright

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time. Susan Cain

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I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream. Susan Glaspell

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published. Susanna Kearsley

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Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. Svetlana Alexievich

Cancer Ten Friends Died Childhood

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums. Sylvia Fraser

Family Marked Temper Tantrums Childhood Which Interpreted

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

Life My Life Part Childhood

When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad. Ta-Nehisi Coates

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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

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood. Tamsin Greig

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I had a pretty happy, loved childhood. Tana French

Happy Pretty Had Childhood Loved

I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good. Tao Okamoto

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It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another. Tara Westover

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood. Ted Naifeh

Girl About Something Childhood Meaningful Deep

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. Teddy Sears

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I think there was, like, a childhood moment where I had to pick shoes, either non-marking or marking shoes. The marking shoes were Spider-Man shoes. I'm like, 'Well, I want the Spider-Man shoes.' But I also didn't want to mark the court; I want to be able to play. I chose the generic, non-marking shoes. Tennys Sandgren

I feel like I've accomplished all my fantasies and childhood dreams. I had nothing; now I have everything. Terezinha Guilhermina

Dreams Nothing Everything Had Feel Like Accomplished Childhood Fantasies Now

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

Music Remember Long Childhood Loved Earliest

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5. Tess Gerritsen

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The person that inspired me throughout most of my childhood was Angela Bassett. Teyonah Parris

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I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood. Thalia

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The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood. Theophilus London

Me Reminds Always Been Brand Childhood Iconic Gap

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