Quotes by childhood

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  Sir James Matthew Barrie
  British playwright 1860-1937

  

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  Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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  Robertson Davies
  Canadian novelist and journalist 1913-

  

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  A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  American poet 1892-1950

  

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  Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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  Adam Savage
  American special effects designer and fabricator 1967-

  

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  That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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  Carol Shields
  American-born Canadian novelist 1935-2003

  

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  A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
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  Pindar
  Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes 522-443 BC

  

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  A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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  Thomas Szasz
  American psychiatrist 1920-

  

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  Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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  Dorothy Parker
  American humoristic writer 1893-1967

  

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  All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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  Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat 1825-1878

  

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  An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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  Augusten Burroughs
  American writer 1965-

  

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  As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
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  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  American cartoonist

  

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  As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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  Carlos Ghosn
  Brazilian-born businessman 1954-

  

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  Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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  Bill Bryson
  American-British author 1951-

  

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  Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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  Louise Bogan
  American poet 1897-1970

  

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  But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
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  William Golding
  British writer 1911-1993

  

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  Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.