Childhood Quotes - Page 26

• Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

  Linda Colley

  Strong, Horse, Jobs

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• My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Dream, Ocean, Careers

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• In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Girl, Father, Years

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• It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

  Ben Affleck

  Running, Midnight, Thieves

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• We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

  Howie Mandel

  Children, Stories, Down And

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• I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Self

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• It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Loneliness, Spring, Loss

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Sorrow, Atheism

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• I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy seeing the image in 3D, there's a childhood fun about being able to see those dimensions.

  Bryan Singer

  Fun, Able, Dimensions

  Source: collider.com

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• So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Kids, Bullshit, People

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences of my childhood being based around the piano. On piano, it is very easy to move between major and minor and to really see how it looks and to feel how it sounds.

  Andrew W.K.

  Moving, Piano, Keys

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.

  LeBron James

  Memories, Who I Am, Levels

  LeBron James - The ’More Than a Game’ Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hard Work, Elderly, People

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Believe, Love You

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• Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.

  Maurice Sendak

  Heart, Stuck, Needles

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• Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.

  Jan Hunt

  Meaningful, Hurt, Children

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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• It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

  Christina Ricci

  Teenage, Years, Lions

  "Christina Ricci's New Tattoo", www.femalefirst.co.uk. April 8, 2007.

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Taken, Adventure

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• Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

  Michael Steger

  Bullying, Bigs

  "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  Katherine Waterston

  Acting, Too Late, Performing

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Book

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, School

  "Mother’s Day Mission: Help Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.

  Jeff Cooper

  Morning, Long, People

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