#childhood

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

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For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood. ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

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When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

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Childhood is the sleep of reason. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#reason #sleep

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

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