Pastoral Resources

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.