Childhood Quotes
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Maeve Binchy -
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
Ernest Hemingway
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Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
Brandon Victor Dixon -
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck -
Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
Arnold Gesell -
The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.
Shakira -
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus -
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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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.
Daryl Sabara -
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
Ian Anthony Dale -
Fireflies inside of a mason jar,Acting big behind the wheel of daddy's car.Playing church around the old piano stand,You were quite a preacher and oh, we sang so grand.I remember every night what we would say and do:'If you've forgiven me, then I've forgiven you.'And now when life begins to get the best of me,I reminisce these childhood memories.
Iris DeMent -
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
Laura Dern -
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.
Jacqueline Woodson
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh -
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life.
Keith Hernandez -
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 -
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall.
Tammy Wynette
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For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
Brie Larson -
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor -
My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.
Keith Ellison -
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop