Childhood Quotes

Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks were always black with coal dirt when I took off my shoes at night. Homer Hickam
Morning Black Shoes Took Saw Dirt Throughout Blanket Powder Always Were Off Childhood Sparkling Coal Float Raised Socks Night
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. Howie Mandel
Life Funny Truth My Life Down Took Our Poignant Were Off Childhood Just Children Stories Happened Us Sat Based Basically
I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't. Ian Anthony Dale
People School Father Negative White Think Negative Way Guess Way Kind High Brothers High School Only Color Share Reminded Weird Also Occasionally Because Mothers Grade Grade School Same Childhood Different Really Associated
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. Ian Mcewan
Experience Adolescence Something Writer Knew Likely Were Lack Childhood Usable Inhibited
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics. Ines de La Fressange
Beautiful Saw Recognise Fabrics Knowing Learned Without Couture Lot Child Childhood
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies. Irvin D. Yalom
Life Library Black Made Bicycle Reading Trek Seventh Neighborhood City Segregated Week Hazardous Supplies Indoor Perilous Up Stock Often Refuge Childhood Central Midst Poor Washington Lived Twice Twice A Week Streets
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember. Isabel Allende
Time Me Remember Mother Nothing Says Horrible Childhood Happened Ever Things
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. Isabel Allende
Life Memory Father Three My Life First Later Significant No Memory Stepfather Most House Him Were Male Years Left Childhood Grandfather Figures Lived Whose
The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving. Isabella Bird
Mountains Air Dream Exceed Magnificent Rocky Rocky Mountains Childhood Realize Nay
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore. Isabelle Adjani
Racism About French Talked Persecution Childhood Anymore After
When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way. Itzhak Perlman
You Everything Way Adolescence Through Go Normal Childhood Should
I had very busy parents, but I really appreciated having a set of traditions during my own childhood, like consistently celebrating holidays at the same place. Ivanka Trump
Parents Own Busy Consistently My Own Having Had Like Traditions Very Celebrating Same Childhood Place Holidays Really Set Appreciated
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. Iyanla Vanzant
Me Somewhere Side Secret Inside Had Knees Attendance Knew Know Bed How Pray However Prayers Years Brain Frightened Did Psalms Childhood Fibers Certain Deep Many Rote Belief Deep Inside Uttered
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative. J. B. Pritzker
Education Opportunities Important Every Society Our Insight Economic Imperative Invested Studies Development Most Identify Policy Returns Proven Issue Dollar Years Goal Providing Five Childhood The Most Important Children Transform Social Younger Much Social Policy Early Early Childhood
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return. J. B. Pritzker
Education Health Quality Care Focus Young Resources High Rate High-Quality Dividends Investment Betting Supporting Know Return Health Care Making Very Childhood Children Young Children Pays Early Early Childhood Guaranteed
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. J. G. Ballard
War Abstract Art Art Me Strange World Key Painting Threat Seemed Postwar Shanghai Abstract Reminded Well Cubism Ambiguity Offer Modern Childhood Movement Whole Nuclear Nuclear War
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence. J. G. Ballard
Future Circulation Cities Unpredictable Seemed Shanghai Mass Advertising Dominated Childhood Newspapers Swept Media Violence
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River. J. Michael Bishop
Youth Research Spent Pennsylvania Rural Born Area February River Forecast West West Bank York Bank Childhood Little Held Career Biomedical
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge. J. Michael Straczynski
You Experience Stronger Those Alive Definition Out No Choice About Seem Had Feel Nobody Crutch Excuse Well Dodge Because Get Gets Childhood Being Crappy Either Turn Choice Who Jerks Present
Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself. J. Michael Straczynski
Opportunity Think Drawn Kind Superhero Genetically Genre Itself Childhood Stories Playing Presents
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
Remember Kind Around Sticks Were Surrounded Childhood Fun Actor
I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for. Jack Garratt
Me Before Spent Entire Someone More Look Off Than Going Childhood Just Realising Showing Needed
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer. Jackie Evancho
Me Strict Parents Swimming Summer About Having Go Yes Childhood Ice Skating
To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent. Jacob Weisberg
World Wealth Made Thanks Live Dramatic Has-Been Able He Look Himself Around Sound Surgery Affectation Been Michael Michael Jackson Celebrity Child Accurate Jackson Quite Childhood Fantasy Created Help Plastic Describe Plastic Surgery
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature. Jacqueline Woodson
Faith People Writing First Feeling Write Come Also Were Been Historically Going Represent Childhood Wanted Stories Story Literature Frustrated Who Started
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. Jake Gyllenhaal
Me Cooking Amazing Sister Extravagant Spent Pretty Most Chefs Childhood Really Dad Mum Mum And Dad Things
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