Childhood Quotes - Page 16

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  Faith Evans

  Religious, School, Grandparent

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  Garth Ennis

  Character, Kids, Superhero

  "Garth Ennis At The Barcelona International Comicon!". MTV Geek Interview, www.mtv.com. April 20, 2011.

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• The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Heart, Earth

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• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  Dave Foley

  Malls

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• If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Kids, Play

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.

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• How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Nature, Heart, Views

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• Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Self Esteem, Snacks, Monsters

  Song: Vampires, Mummies And The Holy Ghost, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

  Aaliyah

  Mom, Growing Up, Business

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Health, Acting, Disease

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• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

  Lev Grossman

  Children, Assuming, Natural

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Doing What You Want

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Dad, Grandparent, Greek

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• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  Sally Hawkins

  Brother, Dad, Inspiration

  "Happy-Go-Lucky Interview". Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.

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• I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, People, Thumbs

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• There was very little art in my childhood.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Littles, Charleston South Carolina

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

  Corey Feldman

  Rough

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Philosophy, Blow

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• I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

  Melanie Laurent

  Perfect Parents, Grandparent, No Fear

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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

  Motherhood, People, Giving

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• 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.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, School, Nightmare

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Running, Cutting, Men

  Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Home, Kids

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• Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Insanity, World

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