Childhood Quotes - Page 5

• My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

  Paula Danziger

  Sarcastic, Mother, Father

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• I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  New York, Boys, Brooklyn

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• My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

  Thomas Keller

  Memories, Wonderful, Culinary

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• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

  Truman Capote

  Lonely, Regret, Life Is

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• A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

  Will Ferrell

  People, Brain, Events

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• At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

  Samuel West

  Jobs, Heart, Cities

  "Selby miners take an early bath" by David Ward, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2004.

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• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  Larry Niven

  Two, Disease, Next

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• Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Children, Fatherhood, Bed

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• Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sunday, Weekend, Hiking

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• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

  James Henry Breasted

  Pyramids, Vision, Wonderland

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• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Golf, Games, Age

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• The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Men, Infancy Is

  A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8

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• If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

  Peter Handke

  Writing, Design, Storyteller

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• My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Should Have, Difficult

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

  Josh Lucas

  Thinking, Decision, Actors

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• Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Long, Ironic

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, 1847.

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• My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

  Peter Jurasik

  Sweet, New York, Class

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Space, Cathedrals

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Evil, Riches

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• I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

  Franz Liszt

  Heart, Glowing, Church

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• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

  Ned Rorem

  Growing Up, Artist, Perception

  Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press

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• Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Children, Weeping

  'The Cry of the Children' (1844) st. 1

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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

  Bill Cosby

  Essence, Play, Courses

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• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  Jack Prelutsky

  My Own

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• I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

  John Hay

  Children, Thinking, Sight

  John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.16

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