- Genius
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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
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he occupied my family's time after church and before the NFL pregame shows.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for the workers at the sugar cane plant.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was a kid, I used to tear pages out of magazines and stick them on my bedroom wall - I had the Eternity ads on my wall and the CK One ads. My whole childhood, those were on my wall, and cut to 20 years later, being asked to be the face of one of Calvin Klein's new fragrances is kind of surreal.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020