"My childhood had gone by without my knowing,……" — Ishmael Beah
"My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen."
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33 Quotes by Ishmael Beah
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We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet…
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ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where…
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My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be…
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This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.
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I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was…
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This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an…
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I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with…
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As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out…
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How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
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I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so…
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war?…
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The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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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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