#childhood

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#childhood #drinking #greatest #influence #lust

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood. ↗

— Samuel West

#childhood #city #continuing #for the people #great

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ↗

— William Gibson

#been #boy #childhood #corner #dead

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#carried #childhood #held #his #hurt

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#central #childhood #dove #farm #hunting

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#childhood #provokes #reach #responses #right

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now. ↗

— Jon Heder

#did #makes #now #our #us

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