Best Childhood Proverbs

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I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a… — George Lopez
I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it. — Unknown Author
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes. — Shiri Appleby
They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe… — Cynthia Rylant
I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy… — Chelsea Manning
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his… — Philippa Pearce
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most… — James Heckman
A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when… — Hiromi
Do not believe that man grows. No: he is born suddenly-a word, in a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can… — Ghassan Kanafani
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never… — Elizabeth Enright
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. — Mary Ruefle
I had a marvelously happy childhood. — Darius Milhaud
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood. — Shaun Cassidy
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not… — Ariel Sharon
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let… — Olive Schreiner
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama. — Louise Bourgeois
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home! — Enrique Iglesias
The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker
For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams… — Lois Wyse
Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever… — Maxwell Maltz
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the… — Thomas Gray

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