Childhood Quotes
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
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My childhood is always going to limit me.
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.
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I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
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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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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
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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.
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.
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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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It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.
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I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
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They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
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Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.
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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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I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
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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.
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It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.
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Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.
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I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.
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The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
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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.
