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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't had the difficulties in my life that other people have had. I didn't have an unhappy childhood.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not have asked for a better childhood.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020