#childhood

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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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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I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents. ↗

— Jude Law

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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. ↗

— Maya Lin

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I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise. ↗

— Jesse McCartney

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I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood. ↗

— Samantha Morton

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