- Mom
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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
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
- Happy Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we'd get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I'd hold in my nose is of mother's vegetable soup.
- Braves
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- Nov 07, 2020