- Never
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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
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a pretty happy, loved childhood.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right from my childhood, whenever I have taken up a task, I have been an achiever.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.
- Fair Game
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- Nov 07, 2020