Quotes about childhood
childhood personality fatherhood
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter
childhood life-is immortality
This life is but the childhood of our immortality. Denis Johnson
childhood insane heritage
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. Dean Koontz
childhood age connections
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
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She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. Simon Hoggart
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Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect. John Caudwell
childhood raw-materials proust
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence. Bruce Chatwin
childhood would-be generations
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood. Arthur Conan Doyle
childhood training groups
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer. Barbara Kingsolver
childhood transition unnoticed
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
childhood religion spirit
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
childhood illusion
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education. Auguste Comte
childhood different tuna
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. Augusten Burroughs
childhood shame embarrassment
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
childhood soul darkness
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. Dave Pelzer
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Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Alice Meynell
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She started out with the way Nellie started her life. Missouri is where she grew up. She had a hard childhood and upbringing that we didn't realize. Nellie had a fascinating life.
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She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.
childhood insanity borders
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. Alexander Herzen
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Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles. Anthony Jeselnik
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
childhood earliest loved music
I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember. Terry Teachout
childhood money prominent sister though wonderful
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact. Natalie Babbitt
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From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. Milla Jovovich
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There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough. Ellen Greene
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. Nikola Tesla
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. Karel Capek
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We are putting on six early childhood classrooms. And that's what's going to be an appendage to the Northwest side of the building. Anne Sullivan
childhood electronic particular radio spent tinkering
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters. Giles Foden
childhood speak internet
I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet. Alessandra Ambrosio
childhood away-from-you happy-childhood
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ... Agatha Christie
childhood music turn
My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music. Virginia Euwer Wolff
childhood picture surprised taken
Peyton Manning was like my childhood hero. To get my picture taken with him, that really surprised me.