- Music
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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
- Different Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at the radio station all the time and on the air all the time. I met John Travolta and a lot of the other big '70s icons. Shaun Cassidy sang 'Da Do Ron Ron' to me onstage. I thought I was a rock star; I had an all-access-pass childhood.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have the songwriter's obligatory sob story. My sister and I both had a very happy, normal childhood and we've turned into sensible adults.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who was also brought over from Pakistan by her parents as a kid, devoted herself to bringing up me and my younger brother and sister, Haroon and Tabinda, and my elder sister Mariyah.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my childhood, a heavy cloud of pain and disappointment and insecurity hovered over my home, my little street, my neighborhood, Jewish Jerusalem, Jewish Israel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020