- Death
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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
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of people who write for children can remember their own childhoods vividly and I can remember my childhood very vividly.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020