- People
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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
- Dreams
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In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
- Life
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The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition. In the process, it helped to create the next step of its own evolution: the modern urban fantasy owes a lot more to 'Bordertown' than many people will ever know.
- Reverse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
- Love
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My childhood was extremely unhappy. That's not to say that my parents didn't love me. But it was traumatic, and of course, art doesn't come out of rosy gardens. It comes out of damage.
- Hair
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I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember a very happy childhood.
- Great
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'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020