It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
He identified with Perry Smith, ... Perry Smith had a terrible childhood. Perry's was much worse than Truman's. Perry was really, really miserable. Truman's was just really miserable. But the loneliness--both of them shared this loneliness.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life . . .
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
Duce was a Steelers fan growing up, so this represents the fulfillment of a childhood dream, ... At the end we did go back to Philly as he promised he would, but his re-involvement in their backfield rotation was a disincentive to re-signing there.
I didn't have a happy childhood.
We take those things and kind of upgrade them. Give them a little twist, a little finesse, but it still has those flavors and those textures that people identify from their childhood.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Somewhere in our early childhood, our bodies became overloaded with stress and we began to breathe through our mouths. As babies we were all nose breathers - if we weren't, breastfeeding would be a very messy affair.
Childhood has no forebodings but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
Childhood is short and maturity is forever.
EDEN We had no childhood, Eve and I. Eden was our mother's breast. Our lullaby was earth's first whimperings as grass and herb bloomed seasonless. I named them blade, by stem, by stalk in loneliness, before the Gods formed woman from my rib of dust. The g.
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We were looking for something that we could do for our kids and wanted to find something they would actually do.
I'm a big baseball fan for sure. I don't know why we started doing it. It was just kind of funny and we always pick out baseball names from my childhood, because that's when the whole baseball reverence happened to me. I guess you could say there is something about old heroes that always makes them worth conjuring up.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.
My childhood was full of deep sorrows -- colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.
Our review clearly showed that the prevention of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer needs to begin in childhood. Reduction in childhood sun exposure and tanning will hopefully stem the rise of skin cancer.
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
Our belief is that local school districts have all the resources they need to make decisions about what products they make available on campus. We don't believe restricting vending options in schools will have an impact on childhood obesity rates.
We've had a reduction of more than 35 percent of overall deaths from non-intentional injuries in the last couple of decades, ... On the other hand, unintentional injuries remains the leading cause of death in childhood.
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
On my way,
Visions of childhood!
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.
We're the only one of the Big Five school districts to see a decrease. Rochester is No. 1 in the state in terms of childhood poverty. The fact that we are losing aid ... is difficult to understand. I'm very concerned about the preliminary numbers.
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