- Happy
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined a meetup group called Bay Area Parents for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I had searched for, as I was going to start a group like it myself.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going back several generations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
- Nov 07, 2020
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My memories from childhood always involve a football.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020