- Feeling
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Spice Girls and Fran Drescher were such important parts of my childhood. There was something about them that allowed me to be myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020