Childhood Quotes - Page 17

• It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Kids, Emotional

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• I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Passion, Successful

  "‘Impossible Pursuits’ on film: A Q&A with Ayelet Waldman". Interview with Katie Hafner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

  Jim Woodring

  Kids, Feelings, Perception

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• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  Lee Westwood

  Dad, Winning, Nuts

  "Lee Westwood: the secret toughness of a natural No1". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Believe, Events, Mercy

  Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.206, Hampton Roads Publishing

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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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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Understanding, Would Be

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• I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Home, Mean, Age

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• Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

  Scoot McNairy

  Block, Adventure, Stand By Me

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• You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

  Michael K. Williams

  Use, Knows, Colorful

  "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

  Nico

  Dream, Home, Winning

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• I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.

  Colin Thompson

  Children, Growing Up, Smart

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• I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

  Colin Thompson

  Thinking, Magic, Ends

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• I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Garden, Forever

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• I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Play, People, Greek

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• I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Football, Family Love, Games

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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

  Anthony Shadid

  Thinking, Twisted, Better Off

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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• You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Trying, Should

  "‘Brady Bunch’ Star Mike Lookinland On Fame, Alcoholism And His Surprising New Career". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

  Edward Hoagland

  Periods

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• I had a very happy childhood.

  Juan Antonio Bayona

  Very Happy

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• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  Valorie Curry

  Mother, College, Class

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• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  Rainey Qualley

  Mom, Art, Two

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

  Booboo Stewart

  Real, Names, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Lonely, Children, Loneliness

  "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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