- Happy Childhood
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood - I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in 'The Crucible.' I played John Proctor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way he tells it, George Michael was born to be a pop star. It's as if nothing else really mattered during his childhood. Even the name was part of the pop creation.
- Archetypal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn't quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn't aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020