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Childhood Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- 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.…
- I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
- Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
- I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
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