#childhood

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents... ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#pets

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#childhood #come #deal #dickensian #did

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure. ↗

— Ed Helms

#comedy #doing #envisioned #had #i

I've never outgrown my childhood. ↗

— David McCallum

#i #never

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. ↗

— Alice Miller

#destructive #people #produce #them #treating

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#always #childhood #childhood memories #connections #dad

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#childhood #direct #directing #i #know

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#childhood #escape #existence #here #i

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#barb #childhood #die #earliest #heart

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#cancer #child #childhood #dose #families