Childhood Quotes
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Orlando Bloom -
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.
T.I.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
Patti Smith -
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
Laura Z. Hobson -
I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
Rachel McAdams -
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens -
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary -
If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath.
Chelsea Kane -
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
Gail Sheehy -
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
Paula Cole -
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
Kary Mullis
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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
Natalie Merchant -
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi -
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
O. R. Melling -
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Gary Paulsen -
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
Daniel Craig -
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
Randy Pausch
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.
Vangelis Aphrodite's Child -
My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
Sadie Jones -
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
Natalie Imbruglia