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There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… — Cesar Chavez
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but… — Paula Danziger
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child… — Bill Gates
Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood,… — Patrick Dempsey
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. — Dennis Rodman
Genius is childhood recaptured. — Jean Baudrillard
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere… — Swami Vivekananda
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships… — Alexander McCall Smith
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever. — Mary Jo Putney
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. — George Eliot
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. — Ellen Glasgow
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. — James M. Barrie
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train… — Lydia Sigourney
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. — William Golding
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all. — Miranda Richardson
Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But… — Rajneesh
Childhood decisions do not have to define you. — Selena Gomez
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers

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