Quotes of: Early-childhood Keyword

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Rick Bass

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Tom Glazer

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I grew up just outside Hay-on-Wye, on the borders of Wales, on a farm. It was an amazing childhood, but I got a bit stir crazy when I hit my teens. There was the feeling of having to get out, you know, but it was definitely idyllic.

Jessica Raine

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Kaley Cuoco

I have had the most wonderful childhood, and I was raised in a very loving family. And it was nothing short of an amazing privilege because I was incredibly lucky to be able to play up in trees and make it like silly dens in a bush and stuff like tha...

Rose Leslie

The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier

Abuse

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring -

Alone

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.

The Kingdom of Childhood

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

The Red Tent

Never let go of your childhood dreams. Anything is possible if you believe it enough to work at it with all your heart.

Sleeping Bags

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Split: A Counterculture Childhood

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.

Lullabies for Little Criminals

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Speak, Memory

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

The Songlines

They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth.

Outpost

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

The Peach Keeper

The scent of your asshole smells like childhood memories. I mean it would, if I grew up in New Jersey.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

Alice Waters