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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. ~Kinky Friedman
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. ~Rachel Stevens
All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information. ~Robert Brault
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself. ~Rita Dove
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. ~Samuel Richardson
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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. ~Benjamin Spock
And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.... ~Williston Fish
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. ~David Gest
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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! ~Max Muller
Childhood is a promise that is never kept. ~Ken Hill
Childhood is a short season. ~Helen Hayes
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons. ~Author Unknown
Childhood is the sleep of reason. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ~Lydia M. Child
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ~Bob Filner
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Childhood reading is so important. ~Kristi Yamaguchi
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~Ambrose Bierce
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. ~Paul Ryan
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ~Gertrude Stein
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ~Rollo May
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? ~Louis de Bernières
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ~Laura Hillenbrand
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ~William Gibson
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ~John Philip Sousa
Genius is childhood recalled at will. ~Charles Baudelaire
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ~Charles Dickens
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic. ~Vanessa Paradis
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. ~Chester Bennington
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ~Thornton Wilder
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~Sigmund Freud
I didn't have a childhood. ~Katy Perry
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life. ~Kinky Friedman
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ~Kurt Cobain
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ~Nikki Giovanni
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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. ~Bill Bryson
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. ~Susie Bright
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies. ~Paul Thomas Anderson
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. ~Jeffrey Eugenides
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ~Charles Lamb
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten. ~Roger Daltrey
I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood. ~Megan Fox
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. ~Stanislav Grof
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. ~Arabella Weir
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. ~Dennis Rodman
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ~Manuel Puig
I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school. ~Demi Lovato
I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me. ~Bobby Flay
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ~Richard Dawkins
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. ~Derek Jacobi
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. ~Tom Hooper
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood. ~Don DeLillo
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. ~Charley Pride
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. ~Patrick Stewart
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard
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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. ~Robert Brault
It is never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Tom Robbins
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ~Margaret Mead
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. ~Carol Vorderman
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. ~Maya Lin
I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it. ~Steven Seagal
Life is the childhood of our immortality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. ~Ethel Waters
Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised. ~Steven Seagal
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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. ~Bill Cosby
My childhood was appalling. ~Taylor Caldwell
My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education. ~Ronnie James Dio
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories. ~Thomas Keller
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. ~Steve Irwin
My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland! ~Paris Hilton
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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ~Amy Tan
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. ~Ray Charles
My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting. ~Demi Lovato
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. ~Orlando Bloom
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood. ~Samantha Morton
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. ~Agatha Christie
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. ~Al Sharpton
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ~Fred Rogers
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ~Andy Goldsworthy
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ~Walter Savage Landor
Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now. ~William Wordsworth
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ~Virginia Woolf
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. ~Barbara Corcoran
The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. ~John Milton, Paradise Regained
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ~Bill Cosby
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. ~Garrison Keillor
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. ~Clint Eastwood
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ~Desiderius Erasmus
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. ~Lorna Luft
The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. ~Vanessa Paradis
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. ~E. B. White
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The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. ~Robert Brault
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~Marcel Proust
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ~Cleveland Amory
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. ~Mark Twain
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene
There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete. ~Carl Lewis
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. ~Maria Callas
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ~Plutarch
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? ~Robert Brault
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. ~Charlie Sheen
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ~Martha Beck
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick
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When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. ~John Grisham
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. ~Shelby Lynne