Quotes with childhood

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  • Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
    (2005)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Augusten Burroughs I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Barbet Schroeder I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
    Barbet Schroeder
    Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Socrates In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Alice Miller It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Liza Minnelli It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Tom Robbins It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Alice Meynell Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life is the childhood of our immortality.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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