Childhood Quotes

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

All of us are products of our childhood.

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.