Childhood Quotes — Page 31

Author, Essayist

“Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.”

Childhood California Chicago

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Lindy West

Writer

“There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.”

Moments Realizing Childhood

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Milan Kundera

Writer

“The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.”

Childhood Path

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Morgan Freeman

Actor, Narrator

“From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.”

Childhood Thrust

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Maya Rudolph

Actress, Comedian

“To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.”

Dream Childhood Your Children

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Mary McCarthy

Author

“The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.”

Children Mother Childhood

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Author

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.”

Judging Integrity Childhood

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Michelle Obama

Lawyer, Author, First Lady

“I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama is trying to do.... But I also find that I have to be very passionate myself about the issue to be able to represent it well. One of the big issues that I've talked a lot about...is childhood health, nutrition and obesity.”

Trying Husband Childhood

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Milan Kundera

Writer

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.”

Mean Country Childhood

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Horace Mann

Educator

“If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.”

Knowledge Childhood Burning

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