#childhood

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. ↗

— Tre Cool

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I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

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