"I escaped the torture of my childhood home……" — Colleen McCullough

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood… — 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… — Margaret Atwood
• Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,… — 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… — Ann Bancroft
• Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and… — 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… — Chester Bennington

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