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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things I talk about with childhood friends are inevitably different from the things I talk about with friends who are the same field as me.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
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I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains. I have amazing parents.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020