Childhood Quotes
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In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
Jeff Buckley
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra Modi
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
Ferid Murad
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I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
Jon Heder
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.
Drew Bledsoe
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
Gaston Bachelard
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I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
Luke Evans
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
Rachel Dratch
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
Teddy Sears
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The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
C.J. Sansom
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My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
Lianne La Havas
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If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.
Oprah Winfrey
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
J. Michael Straczynski
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Natasha Richardson
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
Dakota Johnson
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
