Childhood Quotes - Page 33

• I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

  Christa B. Allen

  Waiting, Cameras, Take Me Back

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

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• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  Rani Mukerji

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Experts, Forget

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Summer, Games, Years

  "Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Attitude, Philosophy

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• Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.

  Sonia Orwell

  Children, Catholic, Nostalgia

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• Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

  John Irving

  Fancy, Grows

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Ideas, Feelings, Reader

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• I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

  Maeve Binchy

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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• If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dream, Emotional, Light

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• I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.

  Corey Taylor

  Growing Up, Way, Certain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

  Jim Butcher

  Stuff, Source, Exposure

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• Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Done, London, Said

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• If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Children, College, Quality

  "An Opportunity Plan to Empower Women in the Workplace" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

  Joseph Murray

  Doctors, Quality, Our Family

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• There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Thinking, Feet

  "Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167". Interview with Elizabeth Gaffney, www.theparisreview.org. 2001.

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• It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, Poverty, Adolescence

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

  Oswald Spengler

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

  Jeff Kinney

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

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• I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

  Mark Ronson

  Dad, Splits, Mum

  "Mark Ronson: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Temptation

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