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One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having ... AL SHARPTON I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I di...
JENNIFER ANDERSON
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, b... ISABEL ALLENDE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE We terrorize ourselves with fears of reliving childhood traumas, but if we survived our childhoods �...
ALAN ROBERT NEAL I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn&...
RICKY SCHRODER
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopul... RACHEL STEVENS I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy w...
MELISSA MATHISON Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so con...
DANA SPIOTTA
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re... ANNIE BESANT
Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. JULIAN BARNES Childhood occupies the biggest part of your brain, so a lot of my memories subconsciously (and consc...
MICHEL GONDRY
My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a differen... ANA DE ARMAS
You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.
TOBA BETA
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too mu... RICHARD DAWKINS
You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m... C.S. LEWIS I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, b...
BEVERLY CLEARY
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture th... COLIN TREVORROW
My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl... ACTION BRONSON I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi...
SHAWN LEVY
Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about chil... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and...
YAYA TOURE
I do have a regular childhood. PARIS JACKSON
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role mod... MICHAEL REDHILL
I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being... KENDALL JENNER
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really... MICHAEL MORPURGO I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, w...
CHRISTIANE NUSSLEIN-VOLHARD I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have...
TOMIE DEPAOLA My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha...
ROBERT F. ENGLE A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh...
TEA OBREHT
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable chil... FRANK MCCOURT
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no
memories of outlived sorrow. GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges th... JIDENNA I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a...
ERIC WILSON
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the ... CESAR CHAVEZ
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m... SAMANTHA MORTON O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes...
DWAYNE HICKMAN
...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and... JOHN GEDDES
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and... IAN MCEWAN
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag... JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. GEORGE SAUNDERS Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I wan...
BRYAN CLAY I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections o...
TORY BURCH
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like child... NEIL GAIMAN
That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid. Maybe some kids are... GIANCARLO STANTON
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmoun... RUBEN STUDDARD
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our ad... CESARE PAVESE Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of peop...
NATALIA VODIANOVA Many people have fond memories of 'perfect' childhood holidays. Trying to re-create these celebratio...
ANITA F. FERNANDER I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a lot of ...
ERIC WILSON There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel th...
MICHAEL CARBONARO
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you rea... IDINA MENZEL I want to solve problems I meet in the daily life by using computers, so I need to write programs. B...
YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up i...
LUCA PARMITANO I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL
Well I don’t know about you, but when I recall childhood pain, I don’t recall the pains of tooth... STEPHEN FRY
I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect... KAREN ARMSTRONG Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put str...
JOE SCARBOROUGH
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen... J.K. ROWLING If you want something you have to go get it yourself or create it. That's all I'm doing this year. C...
NERISSA IRVING Everything was going good till the time you were in my life(Childhood).The happiness once you gave m...
NARESH JELLA
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As ... WHITLEY STRIEBER
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's... MARY LOU RETTON
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who i...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS
Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did ... MARGARET ATWOOD
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best u... LUCY LARCOM We all have a duty to define who we are
SOTONYE ANGA
But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan... JAMES JONES In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot...
BARBARA COSTIKYAN Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou...
E.L. KONIGSBURG
“A son,” I say, recalling every detail of the child’s perfect face.Ivory’s sm...
A.G. HOWARD
You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our pro... JOHN PRESCOTT
Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We wer... DAVID BAILEY
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood. KHALED HOSSEINI
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. PAULA COLE
I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal c... KARISMA KAPOOR As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
MICHAEL GRUBER I love my daughter very much. And she did have a terrible childhood - because it felt that way to he...
LINDA CARROLL
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The cards give you images and symbols to focus your vague intentions and transform them into action....
THERESA CHEUNG
She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's eve... DAVID L. CALOF My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of...
GRANT GUSTIN During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. T...
JACK DAVENPORT
I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember al... KIM KARDASHIAN
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of... EDMUND WHITE Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don&#...
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI
Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my chil... EMERIL LAGASSE
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Lea... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ... GRETCHEN RUBIN Thank you! ....for sharing your childhood with me so I could experience the all joys that were missi...
GINNY TOOLE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK
Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortabl... MICHAEL LEUNIG Don't choose to commit yourself to something just to be the best at what you do. Commit yourself bec...
ADAM COWLES I want to prove myself, but not to impress others. I want to challenge myself, but not to struggle. ...
NIKLAUS VESTALLA
I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in H... MARIE HELVIN I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouri...
MICHAEL CHABON
