I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it. . . I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.
I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P. C. S. : Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
If you grow up. . . in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.
I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that. ' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.
I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I didn't want it to be gentle like most puppet shows tend to be, since they come from childhood where you're gently trying to tell a story. I wanted to blast all that out of the water. I think there's plenty of room of any kind of attitude toward puppets. I call puppeteering acting while hiding.
Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.