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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big fan of old, classic American musclecars like a Shelby GT or the '69 Dodge Charger, cars that inspired me through my childhood. They used to get me real excited when I was a kid. To own one and actually be able to drive them in America is a little of a dream.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a dream from my childhood: I always wanted to play in the Premier League, which is one of the best leagues in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
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- Nov 07, 2020