#childhood

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

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I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. ↗

— Robert Redford

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What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. ↗

— Henry Reed

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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#i #sisters #surrounded #women

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

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I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. ↗

— Paul Reubens

#any #childhood #feel #felt #had

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#genius #recovery #will

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

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ↗