#childhood

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#childhood #fact #films #friends #i

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#books #bring #childhood #i #magic

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#aware #childhood #contribute #could #early

I had a picture-perfect childhood. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#had #i

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#escape #i #looking #spent #whole

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. ↗

— Columba Bush

#childhood #i #sad #say #would