Quotes about childhood
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.
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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 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 experience teenage
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. Robbie Robertson
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 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 freedom happiness intense joy life meaning servants
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
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
childhood
I had an amazing childhood. Abbie Cornish
childhood away-from-you happy-childhood
If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you ... Agatha Christie
childhood speak internet
I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet. Alessandra Ambrosio
childhood miss modern nature pure rate simply standpoint technical understanding wasted
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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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
childhood cloud dark hung intended prospect
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. Nikola Tesla
childhood hoping moment needed time
I think we needed a moment to get back to our childhood. Unfortunately, I have to do some work. After that, I'm hoping to have some time to play.
childhood bits
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Columba Bush
childhood entire observing spent
I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do. Elif Safak
childhood nobody
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Edna St. Vincent Millay
childhood forms found glad none nostalgia
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. Alan Bennett
childhood cousin died five funerals life parties pupils shot stories witnessed
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering. Erin Gruwell
childhood good great rounded
Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player. Brian O'Driscoll
childhoods
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. Al Sharpton
childhood cousins great incredible uncles
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. Action Bronson
childhood mourning lost
We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. David Elkind
childhood choices matter
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
childhood fatherhood
I've never outgrown my childhood. David McCallum