Quotes with childhood

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  • Donna Tartt The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • John Milton The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Antonia Fraser The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Cosby The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Art Linkletter The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Anselm Kiefer The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Marcel Proust There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Deepak Chopra There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Carl Lewis There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Hill 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.
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  • Plutarch To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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