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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
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020