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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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