#childhood

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start. ↗

— John Grisham

#childhood dream #dream #how #i #i do

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #erased #feelings #filled #many

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. ↗

— Michael Herr

#had #happy #instead #vietnam

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#borders #childhood #elegant #everything #grand

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#discoveries #eternal #glow #god #i

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#become #beloved #childhood #everything #felt

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#born #childhood #choice #could #drawers

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. ↗

— James Hillman

#been #childhoods #enough #many #memories

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#am #any #child #childhood #done