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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
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the best dishes I can remember are from my childhood. Sometimes, whenever I want to feel like a kid again, I just whip them up for the family.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
- Nov 07, 2020
I hail from a small town, Jamshedpur. From childhood, I've been constantly surrounded by people who are not so urban.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020