#childhood

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ↗

— Lin Yutang

#food #patriotism #food

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#concepts #histories #homesickness #incapable #individuals

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#had #i #low-level #sure

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#childhood #drag #eccentric #freaks #girl

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body. ↗

— Estella Warren

#body #childhood #clothed #comfortable #coming

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#childhood dream #compromise #dream #everything #goes

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#different #different ways #fitting #fitting in #i

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed. ↗

— Charles Addams

#happiness #life

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#birds #childhood #devon #everywhere #eyes