Childhood Quotes
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Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time - and preserving that sense of magical possibility and wonder that children have. I think, for artists, if you can stay connected to that, then you are in a good place.
Max Richter
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Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.
Erik Erikson
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I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.
Clara Shih
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Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.
David Grann
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I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.
Michael Jackson
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Dennis Potter
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
D.E. Stevenson
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My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
Dorothy Allison
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
Patrick Modiano
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Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
Nadya Suleman
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As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
David Mixner
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We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
Alice Miller
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When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
Jim Woodring
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Socrates
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Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
May-Britt Moser
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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
Laurie Graham
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
Rachel Holmes
