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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a… — Tim Burton
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. — Bill Bryson
I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. — Sandra Bullock
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. — Augusten Burroughs
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. — Brian Aldiss
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking… — Nicolas Cage
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given… — Maria Callas
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. — Robert Carlyle
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens… — Richard Carmona
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a… — John le Carre
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself… — John le Carre
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger… — Lewis Carroll
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated… — Margaret Cho
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. — Agatha Christie
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety. — Sandra Cisneros
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. — Frank A. Clark
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. — Beverly Cleary
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. — Kurt Cobain
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape… — Diablo Cody
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She… — Martin Amis
My childhood was extreme. — Tori Amos
Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better. — Arnold Sommerfeld

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