Childhood Quotes
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Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
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I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.
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I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.
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You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
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History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
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My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.
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Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'
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In Invisible there's a lot about childhood, the death of the brother and then the relationship between the brother and sister.
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
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It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.
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I always felt that I had a childhood. I went to regular school whenever I wasn't working. At one point, I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
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I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?
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It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
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Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
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I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
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I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.
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Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
