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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. — William Gibson

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood. — Flea

Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less. — Crystal Woods

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later. — Erin Merryn

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. — Luke Evans

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. — Samuel Richardson

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada. — Sara Canning

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C.S. Lewis

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. — Plato

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me? — Annie Ernaux

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies. — Woody Allen

The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. — Siri Hustvedt

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley

What a childhood I had - I was ten years old when I
found out Alpo was dog food. — Rodney Dangerfield

Substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one — Alexander McCall Smith

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. — Rachel Carson

Don't even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years. — Brandon Shire

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable. — Bill Gates

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. — Anthony Bourdain

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes. — Vladimir Nabokov

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters. — Pattie Boyd

Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life. — Lynne Rae Perkins

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. — Robert Carlyle

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter. — Raj Chetty

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him. — Patrick Yee

This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid. — Dr. Kid Brain

My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years. — Sarah MacLean

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. — Ross Macdonald

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. — Joyce Maynard

The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence. — Sebastian Barry

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. — Giacomo Leopardi

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. — Rebecca McNutt

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome. — Bryant H. McGill

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again. — Shan Sa

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light. — Martha Graham

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to. — Catherine Lacey

I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old — Jeremy Aldana

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land. — James Rosenquist

These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again. — Francesca Marciano

What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years? — Michael Pollan

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. — Sylvia Plath

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. — Rik Mayall

... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world. — Alan Bradley

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. — Eleanor Farjeon

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years. — Karl Lagerfeld

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years. — Tina Yothers

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. — Colin Trevorrow

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. — Kim Stanley Robinson

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget. — Robert Bly

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. — Maud Hart Lovelace