Best Childhood Qoutes
2204 Childhood quotes by 1598 unique authors
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Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer…
— Steve Busby
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Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
— Alyssa Milano
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left…
— John Banville
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My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very…
— Annie Leibovitz
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I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were…
— Angela Merkel
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
— Sigmund Freud
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back…
— John le Carre
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Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less…
— Philip Roth
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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice…
— William Graham Sumner
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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might…
— George Soros
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but…
— Maurice Sendak
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,
— Maurice Sendak
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The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
— Maurice Sendak
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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;…
— Larry Niven
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel.…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
— Neal Cassady
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People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at…
— Karl A. Menninger
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Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular,…
— Whitley Strieber
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I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
— Colleen McCullough
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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.
— Samuel Woodworth
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art,…
— Michael Morpurgo
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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