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Own Childhood Quotes & Sayings

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I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left. — Patti Davis

A child is never the author of his own history. — Sebastian Barry

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. — Ron Perlman

[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way. — Oliver Sacks

Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative. — Kate Atkinson

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. — Spike Jonze

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy. — Evelyn Waugh

She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood. — Julianna Baggott

Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice.
To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice. — Lokesh Sharma

She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting. — Ian McEwan

What a tremendous power one needs to become his own master! — Mihail Drumes

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. — George Saunders

'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me. — Arthur Penn

Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books. — Julian The Apostate

It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. — Lev Grossman

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. — Bill Cosby

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. — Tove Ditlevsen

The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood. — Aaron Paul

Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. — Anita Diamant

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome. — Anonymous

I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them — Maurice Sendak

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. — Carol Ann Duffy

Be absolutely assured that we will die long before our own deaths if we ever allow the fear of adulthood to kill the wonder of childhood. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being responsible for someone's childhood is a big deal. We not only create our own memories, but we create our child's memories. — Rachel Macy Stafford

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood. — Kevin Nealon

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. — Alice Meynell

I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. — Kathy Mckeon

Nature wants children to be children before men ... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way. — Neil Gaiman

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun. — Randy Pausch

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under. — Rosellen Brown

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture. — Neil Postman

For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age. — Stephen King

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. — Andy Serkis

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. — Al Sharpton