Childhood Quotes
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A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty
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A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
Frederick Seitz
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It`s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would...
Ben Okri
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father`s protection.
Anna Freud
Keywords: any :: as :: cannot :: childhood :: father :: for :: in :: need :: of :: protection :: strong :: the :: thinkSubject: Childhood Quotes :: Family QuotesOccasion: Father`s Day QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is never too late to have a happy childhood
Tom Robbins
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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
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard
Subject: Childhood QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra
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I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn`t like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
Wilma Rudolph
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And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there`s no game in progress, that`s all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you`re permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. ...
L. Ron Hubbard
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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
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
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Some of the best memories of my childhood were of being with my grandmother when she was making tortillas, having to cut the tripe when she made menudo, or sorting the sticks and stones out of the beans on her table.
Lynda Carter
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[Commenting on his difficult childhood and finding success as an actor]: Being locked in the closets, and beat up, and burned, and sexual stuff and to come out from under it, I mean, it`s lovely. I mean, most people like me end up on death row, or in the ...
Robert Blake
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(On his childhood and his live on the land with his family): "I remember us being poor, but I never felt embarrassed, or like I was missing anything. I don`t remember the hardship of trying to make it, just how my parents always managed to get through."
Joaquin Phoenix
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[about being a child star:] "My childhood success came and went real fast. Between 12 and 16, I grew -- as much as I was going to, anyway -- and no longer looked the same. Like most child actors, I found it a difficult adjustment. Still, I`ve done so many...
Seth Green
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(On her childhood) "My head was occupied all the time. I was confused about what I wanted to do or who I was; I didn`t really feel I had an identity growing up."
Emily Blunt
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Childhood for me was basically a backyard, a spade and a bucket of mud with someone to look after you.
Dirk Bogarde
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On his childhood problems and his father`s second marriage to Helen: It was very difficult in the beginning, when everybody was talking about it. My mother just couldn`t take it. It hurt her terribly. She used to worry all the time, go in to depression fr...
Salman Khan
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I aspire to be a director...I think it stems from wanting to be a conductor, another desire of mine from my childhood, though I was not interested in music, not at all. I just wanted to control that orchestra.
Alexander Siddig
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It`s not easy being 6` 3 and being called `Huggy`." - on the nickname he`s had since childhood
Liev Schreiber
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport
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When I got nominated for the Oscar [for Street Smart (1987)], it put rocket boosters in my career. Since childhood, all I wanted to do was make movies. I love the stage, but I wanted to be a movie actor.
Morgan Freeman
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As you get older, you look back and try to make sense of the sort of person you have become. And I think the most important thing that happened in my childhood was the first night I went to boarding school at the age of seven. I remember that night, and t...
Jeremy Irons
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There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences -- I expect a lot of myself and I`m not too kind to myself.
Mary Tyler Moore
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. . . there`s that lovely line from that wonderful epic picture that I made called Grey Owl (1999) where they say to Archie Belaney, "A man becomes what he dreams. You have dreamed well." Part of the dreams go back to my childhood and when I left Ireland ...
Pierce Brosnan
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[on her childhood] I never really had this father figure, which never bothered me. I had my mom, I had people that did love me and care for me.
Christina Aguilera
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[Spike Jonze wanted to borrow photographs from his childhood for Being John Malkovich (1999)] "I gave them my mother`s phone number and told them to tell her that I`m an actor and it was for a film. I don`t think my parents know what I do."
John Malkovich
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People often say I`m a child at heart. In fact, I think I just have access to [my childhood], I have a very clear memory of it. We were all children once. We just need to show a bit of respect for it.
Luc Besson
