#childhood

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#childhood #condition #had #i #illness

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#childhood #dad #did #fact #feel

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#alike #burn #calm #cheerful #childhood

I never had a true childhood. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#had #i #never #true

We're children. We're supposed to be childish. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#innocence #myrcella #myrcella-baratheon #childhood

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. ↗

— Larry David

#adulthood #because #childhood #had #hard

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#going #had #happy #happy childhood #i

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happy #happy childhood #life #many #promising

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#religion #religion