#childhood

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. ↗

— George Will

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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. ↗

— John Grisham

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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age. ↗

— Samantha Morton

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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. ↗

— James Hillman

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There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

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