Happy Childhood Quotes - Page 2

• The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

  David Lynch

  Childhood, Psychopath, Very Happy

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.182, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Childhood, Training, Groups

  Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.

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• Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood.

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Happiness, Writing, Childhood

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• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  Maeve Binchy

  Childhood, Very Happy, Irish Writers

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• John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

  Kinky Friedman

  Childhood, Preparation, Worst

  "Will Texas get Kinky?". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

  Carolyn Hart

  Heart, Loss, Childhood

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

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Childhood, Unlucky

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• A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

  Hortense Calisher

  Children, Memories, Rainbow

  Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

  "Why Maurice Sendak Puts Kid Characters in Danger". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.

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• I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Kids, Childhood

  "California dreaming" by Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2008.

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• People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  Sue Grafton

  Happiness, Grief, Unhappy Childhood

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• I had a marvelously happy childhood.

  Darius Milhaud

  Childhood

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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, Childhood

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• A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Childhood, Preparation

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• Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Drawing, Perfect

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.92, Ballantine Books

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• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Sibling, Childhood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Catholic, Ordinary

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ch. 1 (1996)

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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  Fran Drescher

  Queens, Growing Up, People

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• I didn't have a happy childhood.

  Giorgio Armani

  Childhood

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• I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

  Terry Leahy

  Childhood, Parent, Doe

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• By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Growing Up, Kids, Childhood

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• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Slave Girl, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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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'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

  Martin Compston

  Football, Boys, Childhood

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

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