My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

I didn't have a happy childhood.