1,864 Quotes About Childhood

  • Author Sonia Sotomayor
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    The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

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  • Author Socrates
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    In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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  • Author Steven Seagal
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    Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

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  • Author Will Self
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    Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

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  • Author Bruno Tonioli
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    I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

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  • Author Leo Tolstoy
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    Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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