Childhood Quotes - Page 5

• I had a marvelously happy childhood.

  Darius Milhaud

  Happy Childhood

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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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• 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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• When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.

  Lukas Foss

  War, Shoes, Boots

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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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• 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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• 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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• You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

  Ron Perlman

  Fatherhood, Actors, Tees

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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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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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

  Thomas Keller

  Memories, Wonderful, Culinary

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Action, Our Children

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• I had a great childhood.

  Tom Felton

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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  Kate Adie

  Drama, Literature

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• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

  David Leavitt

  Smell, Brownies, Perfume

  David Leavitt (2013). “The Stories of David Leavitt”, p.4, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• 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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• There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

  Cleveland Amory

  Age, Three, Terrible

  "The Cat and the Curmudgeon".

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• I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Unlucky, Happy Childhood

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