#childhood

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#being #black #childhood #essentially #feet

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#everyone #i #i think #land #lost

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

#character #childhood #everything #go #inner

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#came #childhood #food #hard #highlight

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#barb #childhood #die #earliest #heart

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#cancer #child #childhood #dose #families

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#big deal #childhood #childhood dream #deal #dream

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. ↗

— Leverett Saltonstall

#childhood #church #father #i #mother

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. ↗

— George Saunders

#gothic #had #i #i may not #makes