- 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 Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.
- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was spent in a typical Mumbai chawl at Girgaum and I studied at the nearby St. Sebastian School.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020