Childhood Quotes — Page 26

RH

Author

“My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.”

Mother Parent Childhood

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

“There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.”

Childhood Becoming Leaving

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Ice Cube

Rapper, Actor

“The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.”

Real Childhood

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Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer, Photographer

“My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.”

Years Childhood

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Mae West

Actress, Singer, Screenwriter

“A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.”

Real Childhood Hay

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Zadie Smith

Novelist, Essayist

“It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.”

Writing Childhood Structure

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Ziggy Marley

Musician

“Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.”

Children Growing Up Childhood

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Orhan Pamuk

Novelist, Screenwriter

“My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.”

Football Community Childhood

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”

Different Would Be Childhood

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Indira Gandhi

Politician

“If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.”

House Childhood Police

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Mara Wilson

Actress

“I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of course, you never know when they're interesting moments, but there was a lot of stuff that I remember and have attached significance to later. I remember enough. I remember highlights.”

Thinking Interesting Childhood

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Mara Wilson

Actress

“Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's never women - who say, "You were my childhood crush, can we date?" And I'm like, "There's something kind of creepy about that. Do you hear yourself?"”

Guy Childhood Crush

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