Quotes with childhood

  • My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
  • As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
  • That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
  • My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
  • Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
  • Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
  • There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
  • My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
  • Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Robertson Davies A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Adam Savage That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Carol Shields A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Thomas Szasz Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Dorothy Parker All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Carlos Ghosn Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Louise Bogan But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • William Golding Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Childhood is the sleep of reason.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • John Milton Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • David Leavitt Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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