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“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.”

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Book:Literary Lapses

Source: Literary Lapses

“It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn't know it.”

Ifs Knows Feels Years Home Asks Childhood Abuse Domestic Abuse Incidence

Author:Gloria Steinem

“We get to do what we love, and that's the most important thing. I feel very thankful, every day that I get to wake up and do what I do because it's a childhood dream. I get to live my job, and it's more than I could ever ask for.”

Feels Important Dream Jobs Asks Childhood Wake Up Important Things Childhood Dreams Very Thankful

Author:Howard Berger

“I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is of her generation. If I'm going to ask her to accept me exactly as I am, I have to give her the same. She has read part of the book, but my sisters told her which chapters not to read!”

Ifs Giving Book Mother Asks Felt Accepting Generations Childhood Faults Raised My Sister Chapters Accept Me

Author:Leslie Jordan

“When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?”

People Has Beens Helping Problem Asks Community Challenges Levels Results Powerful Poverty Childhood Tools Locals Introducing Adopted

Author:James Redford

“Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Reason Seems Asks Childhood Special Painting Drawing Ask Me Dots Hallucinations

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.”

Thinking World Firsts Dream Age Certain Asks Term Childhood Thirds Graves Reform Your Children Contribution Now And Then Adulthood Fulfilled Glamour Childhood Dreams

Author:Bette Midler

“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

Writing Asks Names Childhood

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?”

Trying Looks Heart Hard Asks Childhood Judging Judge Me Before You Judge Me

Author:Michael Jackson

“Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.”

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Author:Patrick Dempsey