#childhood

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bad #childhoods #ever #fabulous #going

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#difficulties #early #early childhood #had #hard

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#dies #kingdom #matters #nobody #where

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#childhood #comfortable #giraffe #i #lot

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#also #am #aware #awareness #besides

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#any #being #best #cannot #childhood

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#chills #get #hear #over #songs

I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#back #been #beyond #childhood #coming

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#childhood #i #influenced #life #me