Childhood Quotes - Page 34

• At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  People, Crippled, Wounds

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Claire Zion (1989). “Fancy Pants”, Pocket

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• Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

  Adrian Peterson

  Mom, Brother, Jesus

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• From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Order, Breathing

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• I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.

  Corey Feldman

  Opportunity, Choices, Wish

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

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• And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.

  Wes Anderson

  Powerful, Writing, Romance

  "Book Excerpt: Deconstructing Filmmaker Wes Anderson". Interview with Steve Chagollan, variety.com. October 30, 2013.

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• Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sea, Risk, Sailing

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

  Juan Gabriel

  Children, Things In Life, Life Is

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

  Stephen King

  Light, Imagination, Age

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Teaching, Men

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 1, 1882.

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• We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Years, Fabulous, Remember

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• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

  Simon Mawer

  Thinking, Suffering, Novelists

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• I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Errors, Dungeons, Inmates

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.172, Vintage

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• Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

  Thomas Keating

  Names, Self, Personal History

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• Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

  Cassie Ventura

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Two, Sari

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• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Unfortunate Things, Fiction, Able

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• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  Heather O'Neill

  Halloween, Kids, Hard Times

  Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

  Yukio Mishima

  Hero, Thinking, Common

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mistake, Careers, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Cadillac Jack: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

  Sam Heughan

  Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  M. Ward

  Smell, Able, Rooms

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• They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

  Brett Ratner

  Artist, Taste, Saws

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• Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

  Joyce Maynard

  Years, Joy, Ease

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  Hannah Storm

  Determination, Adversity, Player

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