- Age
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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
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.
- Traditional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I'd love to batter The Rock.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020