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I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
Michael Gove
Love
Me
Youth
Parents
Every
Way
Would
Having
Point
Pick
Support
Stumbled
Most
Fell
Ready
Been
Up
Childhood
Children
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
Michael Ian Black
Depression
Age
Think
Other
Defensive
Machines
About
Supermarket
Steal
Had
Until
Napping
Been
Lot
Than
Trying
Did
Childhood
Against
Might
Much
Interests
Measure
Awake
Twelve
Zero
Eleven
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
Michael K. Williams
You
Word
Pretty
Colorful
Like
Know
Childhood
Turbulent
Use
Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.
Michael Leunig
Man
People
First
Beginning
Statue
Cross
Horrifying
Nailed
Most
Encounter
Often
Childhood
Unfortunate
Confronted
Repulsive
Many
Suddenly
Jesus
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
Michael Leunig
Music
Dreams
Soul
Become
Difficult
Embrace
Composition
More
Poetry
Mysterious
Feed
Like
Without
Courtship
Childhood
We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'
Michael Morpurgo
Art
Great
You
Memories
Writing
Matter
Field
Our
Great Memories
Something
Triumphs
Football
Football Field
Feel
Stuff
Know
Makes
Childhood
Hockey
Whether
Little
Really
A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.
Michael Moschen
People
Think
Kind
Defy
Joining
Stuff
Well
Forces
Lot
Childhood
Golf
Process
Gravity
A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.
Michael Portillo
Home
Carving
Nag
His
Childhood
Wood
Quixote
Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood - as do other family members.
Michael Portillo
Art
Family
Try
Other
Visit
Members
Hop
Marvellous
Edinburgh
Always
Years
Revisit
Train
Family Members
Often
Childhood
Whenever
Where
Which
Grandfather
Gallery
Paintings
Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.
Michael Steger
Life
Bullying
My Life
Big
Part
Big Part
Childhood
I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks.
Michel Faber
Life
Memory
Remember
Possibly
Bad
Well
Sort
Another
Erased
Been
Very
Childhood
Just
Banks
Reason
Trauma
Early
Early Life
Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.
Michelle Forbes
Me
Fruit
Favorite
Reminds
Childhood
Pears
Congress created tax-exempt 501(c)(4)s to operate exclusively for social welfare purposes like early childhood education, environmental protection, and veteran's assistance. However, an IRS regulation allows 501(c)(4)s to operate primarily for the promotion of social welfare.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Environmental
Education
Welfare
Protection
Veteran
Congress
Promotion
Purposes
Primarily
Environmental Protection
Like
Operate
However
Childhood
IRS
Social
Created
Regulation
Social Welfare
Assistance
Early
Early Childhood
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.
Michelle Magorian
Home
Me
People
Wonderful
Parents
Gave
Tools
Books
Unbearable
Atmosphere
Between
Terrible
Alternative
Were
Times
Arthur
Escape
Wonderful People
Childhood
Them
Found
Rows
It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
Mike McCarthy
Win
Back
About
Winning
Never
Expected
Goes
Childhood
Fun
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
Milla Jovovich
Me
Mother
Style
Framing
About
Examining
Had
Robert
Modelling
Childhood
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
Mindy Kaling
Success
Good
Great
Book
School
Great Deal
Value
Parents
Nerd
About
Through
Had
Put
Feel
Academic
Talk
Sort
Because
Deal
Expectations
Childhood
Being
Which
Fulfilled
Lucky
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.
Miranda Kerr
Ride
Big
Farm
Trees
Spent
Willow
Outdoors
About
Weeping
Learned
Climb
Motorbike
Childhood
Six
Little
Grandparents
I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors.
Miranda Kerr
Work
Love
Try
Spent
Out
Outdoors
Outside
Most
Childhood
Being
Work Out
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
Miranda Richardson
Beach
Ideal
Sort
Sounds
Very
Childhood
Much
Really
Use
My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
Citizen
Morocco
Sheltered
Up
Very
Childhood
Grew
Lived
Palace
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.
Moon Jae-in
Life
Money
Benefits
Poverty
Important
Peers
Independent
More
Most
Most Important Thing
Well
Became
Important Thing
Were
Dictated
Mature
Than
Childhood
The Most Important
Realized
Thing
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Alone
Home
Together
Mother
Sister
Living
Characteristic
Independent
Since
Like
Always
According
Friends
Childhood
Preferred
Lived
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nadia Murad
Peace
Girl
About
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Know
South
Prize
Did
Childhood
Anything
Region
Village
Lived
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
Naeem Khan
Family
Class
Together
Sports
Happy
School
Cricket
Had
Still
Very
Close
Five
Childhood
After
Loving
Younger
Team
Captain
Large
Lived
Played
Sibling
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
Nancy Marchand
You
School
Down
Spent
Could
Had
Written
Written Down
Head
Adventures
Learn
Making
Real
Making Up
Were
Lines
Up
Childhood
Just
Realized
Then
Acting
Your
Acting School
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