#childhood

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#around #bandstand #celebrations #center #childhood

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#i #sisters #surrounded #women

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#aware #care #childhood #course #feelings

I had a picture-perfect childhood. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#had #i

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#genius #recovery #will

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#childhood #daddy #dishes #earned #garden

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#always #believe #childhoods #craziest #ever