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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Play is the work of childhood.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first Champions League final in 1996: Juventus-Ajax. That's the clearest memory from my childhood.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
- Good Deal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020