- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020