#childhood

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

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I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. ↗

— George Will

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I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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

— Herbert Gold

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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

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My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! ↗

— Max Muller

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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

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