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I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're… — Mike Lookinland Copy Share Image
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven… — R. K. Laxman Copy Share Image
“And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Summer on the farm was glorious. Peter spent as much time out of doors as possible, and he had many playmates, since… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
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“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like… — Pat Cunningham Devoto Copy Share Image
The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university.… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I was born in Africa but brought up in the north-east of England. Most of my childhood was spent living on a… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want… — Jessica White Copy Share Image
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
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My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most… — Saint Remigius Copy Share Image
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