Childhood Quotes
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I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.
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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.
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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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But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
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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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My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
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You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
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You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.
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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.
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Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
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They may have fast-track hyperkinetic personalities, be impatient, restless, impulsive, often intuitive and creative but unable to follow through, frequently unable to linger long enough to develop a stable intimate relationship. Usually, they have self-esteem problems that began in childhood.
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
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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 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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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
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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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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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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'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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My childhood is always going to limit me.
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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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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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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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Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
