Childhood Quotes

"Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig" "Growing up, I loved clothes and cherished them." "I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot." "As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting." "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." "It takes a village to raise a child" "In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win." "When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire" "I've never been embarrassed about having streaks in my drawers. You know, it's all part of growing up." "By Far The Best Dressing Up Outfit I Ever Had Was A Wonderful Pair Of Clown Dungarees, Which My Granny Made." "I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer." "The soul is healed by being with children." "I always felt that there was something different about me growing up. I knew I was different from the others." "Enjoy the little fun things—like taking your kids to school—before they're all grown up" "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "I must confess, I was born at a very early age." "The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive."