- Guitar
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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
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.
- Nov 07, 2020
My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played many matches and got experience very early. Did I lose some of my childhood? This is one of the things that I am more sensitive about and that touched me the most, because I am a family person. There are many moments that I haven't had the chance to enjoy with my family and also with my friends.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with God versus how I sing. People in church are like, 'You sing the devil's music,' but I believe in balance. I can't just party with you. I got to help you, too.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
- Esteemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world.
- Insane
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
- Nov 07, 2020
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020