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“My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.”

Whole Childhood New York Late Musician Conscious Organization Filled Concerts Classical Music Ensemble Starters

Author:Gunther Schuller

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.”

Feels Beautiful Memories Cities Sun Wonderful Childhood Grew Grew Up Filled Beach Privileged Coast Eastern Beautiful City Wonderful Memories

Author:Luca Parmitano

“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.”

Children Happens Sadness Childhood Filled Happy Childhood

Author:Mark Haddon

“Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.”

People Ifs Thinking Book Use Reality Courses Simple Known Worry Clear Childhood Tough Filled Busy Planning Nervous Managers Complexity Frightened Thick Reverse Insecure Slides Convoluted

Author:Jack Welch

“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.”

Needs Children Facts Pain Mother Suffering Wish Felt Parent Imagine Childhood Emotional Filled Illness Frustration Wounded Forbidden Best Mother

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.”

Source: Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

“Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.”

Feelings Parent Childhood Becoming Negative Filled Something New Becoming A Parent

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”

Source: Children Without Childhood

“Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”

Ifs Way Important Moments Joy Practice Meditation Childhood Eating Our Children Filled Present Moment Cookies Joy And Happiness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.”

Mother Song Passion Childhood Singing Filled Traditional

Author:Ofra Haza

“A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.”

Soul Grows Tree Childhood Broken Return Promise Filled Genuine Thread Ruined Bud Springtime New Hope Threads Of Life

Book:Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

Source: Beneath the Wheel: A Novel

“The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.”

Parent Voice Behinds Childhood Security Source Wall Anxiety Filled Panic Bedroom Humming Bedroom Wall

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex