Own Childhood Quotes
26 Own Childhood quotes by 25 unique authors
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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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
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
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You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.
— Ron Perlman
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Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
— Spike Jonze
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I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel,…
— Daniel Pinkwater
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A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as…
— Beatrix Campbell
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The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.
— Orson Scott Card
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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn…
— Louise Hay
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Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
— Lev Grossman
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I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw…
— Ben Stiller
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I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into…
— Richard Dawkins
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At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so…
— Dwyane Wade
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For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing…
— Kate Winslet
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What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even…
— Randy Pausch
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This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement…
— Justin Torres
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In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew…
— Art Spiegelman
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
— Maurice Sendak
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When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
— Kevin Nealon
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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of…
— Alice Meynell
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When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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25 authors contributed a total of 26 Own Childhood Quotes as follows: