- Me
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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
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a picture-perfect childhood.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020