#childhood

My childhood was appalling. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#childhood

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #lonely #major #regret #unnecessarily

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor? ↗

— Fred Rogers

#inspirational #love #mister-rogers-neighborhood #television #beauty

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs. ↗

— Paula Cole

#childhood #childhood memories #i #into #memories

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees ↗

— Philip Roth

#life

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#believing #best #big-time #childhood #ever

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#course #did #endlessly #essence #friends

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#because #childhood #country #disgusting #forgotten