Childhood Quotes — Page 30

JL

Filmmaker

“In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.”

Childhood Technique Turkeys

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Jennifer Lee

Filmmaker

“I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.”

Firsts Childhood Chinese

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Jimmy Buffett

Musician, Author

“Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.”

Childhood Self Esteem Snacks

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John Gardner

Author, Educator

“So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.”

Age Childhood Feel Good

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Jose Saramago

Writer

“If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.”

Littles Childhood Pigs

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.”

Character Roots Childhood

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.”

Want Imagination Childhood

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Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.”

Eye Jesus Childhood

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Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“When you're hurt very badly in your childhood, the area that it has the greatest effect on is relationships. Once you feel like you can't trust people, once you feel like that they don't care about you, that they're really not going to take care of you, it gets very difficult in relationships.”

People Hurt Childhood

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.”

Truth Pride Childhood

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.”

Men Regret Childhood

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Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.”

Childhood Terrible Mess

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