Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Childhood Quotes
ChildhoodFearPredationSafetyVulnerability When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.
AestheticsChildhoodChoicesPersonal Preferences A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
ChildhoodCuriosityDiscoveryExpressionScience We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
ChildhoodCuriosityDiscoveryInnocenceNature I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
ChildhoodCreativityNostalgiaPassionPerformance My love of performing goes way back. My mom got me on 'Romper Room' when I was five - it was my favorite show. But they couldn't control me. I would run up and smack the camera, and I'd jump around and do my little flips and routines. I wish I could get that tape now.
AltruismChildhoodHeroesInspirationSelf-Development When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
AmbitionChildhoodDreamsSportsSuccess Winning the Champions League is what you dream about when you are a small child.
AlienationChildhoodIdentityIsolationSelf-Perception From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
ChildhoodExperienceGrowthPerceptionSeriousness Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
ChildhoodEmotional ExpressionInstinctVulnerability Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
ChildhoodFamilyLoveMotherhoodSacrifice My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Belief FormationChildhoodIndoctrinationRepetition There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
ChildhoodEnjoymentGamingHobbiesPersistence Something people wouldn't expect me to do is I play this computer game called 'Runescape.' I've played 'Runescape' since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.
ChildhoodConformityIdentityIndividualitySociety While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
ChildhoodFamilyHeritageImaginationStorytelling I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
ChildhoodFamilyHobbiesMusicPersonal Growth Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
ChildhoodEducationFamily Values I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
ChildhoodFairy TalesImaginationReadingWonder If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
BelongingChildhoodHomelandNostalgia I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
ChildhoodFamilyFearGrowthHelplessness In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.
AdversityChildhoodEmpathyPoverty Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.
ChildhoodDreamMemoryNostalgia I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
AchievementChildhood When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.
AdversityChildhoodPerseverance I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
ChildhoodCorruptionEvilFamilyMorality Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
