- Best
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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
- Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad were 'helicopter parents,' literally. Meaning, I didn't have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents - how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.
- Brothel
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by his films.
- Hiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020