Childhood Quotes

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Philosopher, Writer

“Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.”

Children Character Childhood

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Lily King

Author

“To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.”

Different Feelings Childhood

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.”

Book Fans

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Mark Vonnegut

Physician, Author

“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Childhood Adults

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”

Ends Childhood Youth

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Lily King

Author

“I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.”

Strong Feelings Childhood

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Kim Harrison

Author

“Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.”

Growing Up Forever Childhood

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Jane Goldman

Screenwriter

“I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.”

Thinking Childhood Hammers

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Jean de La Fontaine

Poet, Fabulist

“But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).”

Children Age Childhood

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Jean Cocteau

Poet, Novelist, Playwright

“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”

Quality Childhood Adults

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Jenna McCarthy

Author

“One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.”

People Childhood Divorce

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Jean Cocteau

Poet, Novelist, Playwright

“Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.”

Want Childhood Behinds

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