- Better Off
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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
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want to give my children what I didn't have - a good role model.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always in my house, I have almonds, hummus, Triscuits, and cheddar cheese. It takes me back to childhood. My go-to meal would probably be pasta.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020