Childhood Quotes — Page 25

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Shannon Miller

Gymnast

“I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.”

Kids Age Childhood

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poet, Novelist

“I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.”

Home Desire Childhood

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

“Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis”

Childhood Neurosis

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

“Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.”

Childhood Gold

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Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

“A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.”

Strong Memories Childhood

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Sonia Orwell

Writer

“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”

Children Childhood Catholic

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Stephen King

Author

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”

Real Childhood Halloween

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Robert Winston

Physicist and Science Communicator

“Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?”

Children Childhood Hunters

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Steve Mann

Inventor

“I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.”

Art Childhood Elements

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Rosanne Cash

Singer, Songwriter

“I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.”

Book Childhood Piano

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Ru Freeman

Author

“War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.”

War Childhood Youth

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Steven Morrissey

Singer-Songwriter

“My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.”

Childhood Streets Highways

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