Best Childhood Wisdom
2204 Childhood quotes by 1598 unique authors
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My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by…
— James Cagney
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I didn't really get a normal childhood.
— Evan Rachel Wood
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and…
— Paul O'Grady
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I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my…
— Paul Reubens
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My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think
— Josh Lucas
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My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful -…
— Peter Jurasik
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I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.
— Stephen Furst
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What I have got from my childhood aren't toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy.
— River Phoenix
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As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the…
— Spike Jonze
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I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
— Wil Wheaton
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I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
— Jon Heder
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I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
— Rik Mayall
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I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in…
— Karl Urban
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Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.
— Michael Jackson
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Childhood reading is so important.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me…
— Natasha Richardson
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My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
— Columba Bush
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America…
— David Lynch
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The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
— DeForest Kelley
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
— Jack Davenport
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I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue.…
— Billy Corgan
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I had a great childhood. I had such fun.
— Nastassja Kinski
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