Childhood Quotes
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Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.
Carol Bly
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.
Richard Simmons
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There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
Steven Saylor
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Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
Alex Pareene
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To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
Tom Vilsack
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I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Kelly Asbury
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
Stephen Mangan
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
Emily Dickinson
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I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
Rik Mayall
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Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.
Bill Burr
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It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.
Bradley Wiggins
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For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
Elif Batuman
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I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
Melissa Etheridge
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
Marilyn Monroe
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You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
Colin Trevorrow
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Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.
Russell Baker
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Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
Anthony Marra
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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.
Kim Fields
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Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
Josh Keaton
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As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
Michael Gruber
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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Maya Lin
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Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.
Gautama Buddha
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Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.
Carolyn Hart
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I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.
Sandra Bullock