Quotes and Sayings About Childhood
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From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
-- Adolf EichmannSource : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
-- Agatha Christie -
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
-- Aimee Bender -
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.
-- Aleatha RomigSource : Aleatha Romig (2011). “Consequences”, p.104, Romig Works LLC
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
-- Alex Shakar -
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Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
-- Alexander Herzen -
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
-- Alexander McCall SmithSource : FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011
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One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
-- Alexandre Dumas-filsSource : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
-- Alice HoffmanSource : Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.69, Penguin
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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
-- Alice Meynell -
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...
-- Alice Meynell -
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In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.
-- Alice Meynell -
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.
-- Alice Miller -
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
-- Alice MillerSource : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.19, Macmillan
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The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.
-- Alice Miller -
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We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.
-- Alice Miller -
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.
-- Alice Miller -
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
-- Alice Miller -
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
-- Alice MillerSource : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.265, Macmillan
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
-- Alice Munro -
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
-- Alice Waters