"It's only in hindsight that you realize what……" — Maya Lin
"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."
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67 Quotes by Maya Lin
Maya Lin has 67 quotes on this site.
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up…
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes…
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find…
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because…
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked…
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I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each…
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the…
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never…
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s,…
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More Childhood Quotes
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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
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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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…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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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