Childhood Quotes - Page 27

• 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 wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

  Alex Flinn

  Fun, Kids, Play

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• I had a very happy childhood.

  Juan Antonio Bayona

  Very Happy

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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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• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Responsibility, Wake Up, Quitting

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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 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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• Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not to have a child. And this stuff certainly makes you think about what you're taking on. I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough, and wanted to bring someone into the world because I had some kind of security.

  Laura Dern

  Girlfriend, Children, Thinking

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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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• 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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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Struggle, May, Gestures

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• I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

  Ben Stiller

  People, Fantasy, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

  Vera Farmiga

  Simple, Tragedy, Clean

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Kids, Names

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Book, Newton

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• 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

  School, Confusion, Resolve

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

  Edward Teller

  Eye, Lenses, Magnifying

  Edward Teller, Judith Schoolery (2009). “Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics”, p.5, Basic Books

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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 was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

  Samuel Lover

  Motherhood, Voice, Tone

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14

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• Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Games, Enthusiasm

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• My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Father, Fishing

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