#childhood

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #business #childhood #cradle #emotions

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#born #childhood #had #happy #happy childhood

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

— Curtis Joseph

#character #childhood #everything #go #inner

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#childhood #family #represents

I'd had a rough childhood. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#had #i #rough

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#childhood #desks #drop #fortunate #had

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#childhood #felt #hanging #head #hell

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#childhood #course #during #eaten #goes

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#another #because #childhood #complete #deal