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“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.”

Men Life Heart Children Feelings Form Spirit Social Voice Heard Childhood Expression Spring Laughter Philosopher Uplifting Analysis Significance Egotism Merry

Author:William Osler

“The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.”

Lasts Four Heard Childhood Months Thanks

Author:Paul Feig

“I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.”

Knows Men Years Believe Has Beens I Believe Teacher Wonderful Heard Childhood Enjoyed Journalist Very Happy Good Education Happy Childhood Wonderful Man

Author:Maeve Binchy

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.”

Ifs Long Said Reading Dark Heard Sky Childhood Grew Walking Driving Southern Highways Dickens Carriages Ponies Dearest Friend

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.”

Firsts Guy Imagine Heard Childhood Movement Radio Singers Tall Genes

Author:Bob Dylan

“I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.”

Thinking Moments School Found Teacher Heard Childhood Band Pivotal Scholastics Music Teacher Pivotal Moments Music In Schools

Author:Dave Smalley

“What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”

People Has Beens Different Age Names Individual Wise Heard Childhood Perspective Bears Innocent Old Age Maturity Collectives Dunces

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.”

Inspiration Memories Heard Childhood Example Band Tradition Performances Excellence Charity Males British Variety Royal Choir Brass Happy Memories Brass Bands British Music

Author:Michael Parkinson

“I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.”

Knows Art Said Stories Humor Funny Father Heard Childhood Complicated Comedian Qualified

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.”

Heard Childhood Train Boston Maine

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.”

Source: Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”