#childhood

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#childhood #grow #grow up #i #i always

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#called #cancer #childhood #common #muscular

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#great #great people #growing #growing up #had

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#abraham lincoln #carry #certain #characters #childhood

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#entire #entire generation #generation #health #obesity

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. ↗

— Tim Vine

#ask #childhood #comics #conscious #conscious effort

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#competitive #dad #did #drive #everything

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#childhood #dates #days #early #early childhood

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

— Andrew Wiles

#adult #adult life #been #being #childhood