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Childhood Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.
- We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
- I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent…
More Childhood Quotes
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. — Lance Armstrong
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft
- Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Genius is childhood recalled at will. — Charles Baudelaire
- What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. — Martha Beck
- I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to… — Chester Bennington