Childhood Quotes
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There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
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If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
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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.
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I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.
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I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.
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I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
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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.
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
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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.
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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.
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You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
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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.
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I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.
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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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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.
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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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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.
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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
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I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.
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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
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I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
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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.
