- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood Quotes
On memory, nostalgia, and the years that shaped us.
This collection captures childhood in very different forms, a self-sufficient upbringing with a cow and vegetable gardens, and a holiday that has slowly lost its old magic as it grew more secular. See Hope quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a musical family, and Carnatic music made up so much of my childhood, my upbringing, and my musical transition.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enacting the role of an investigative officer was like living my childhood dream!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was not always a happy one because we had to visit our father in jail, as my father was often imprisoned by the Pakistani rulers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect. For instance, me and my sister, when we were little, we would compete to see who could eat the most squirrel brains.
- Clinging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020