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“Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.”

Ifs Children Character Felt Support Doubt Streets Childhood Couple Spring Towns Our Family No Doubt Flaws Jersey Payment New Jersey Love Of Money Character Flaws I Love Money

Author:Michael Ian Black

“Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?”

Ifs Remember Grief Childhood Supposed To Be

Author:Amity Gaige

“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Feelings Dream Light Remember Sound Quality Childhood Emotional Particular Essentials Draws Unusual Recalls Fooled Still Life

Author:Maurice Sendak

“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.”

Ifs Firsts Children Quality Economy Childhood College Succeed Our Children University Thrive Graduates Affordable Early Childhood Colleges And Universities Early Childhood Education

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“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

“I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.”

Ifs Thinking World Writing Stories Would Be Childhood Better Place Funny Story

Author:Jeff Kinney

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”

Ifs Thinking Common Failing Childhood Hero Satisfied Demon

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”

Ifs Ends Artist Interest Saws Influence Childhood Taste Approach Your Children

Author:Brett Ratner

“Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Children Numbers Childhood Asking Strive Thoughtful

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.”

“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“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

“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”

Ifs Humans Age Childhood Century Youth Particular Periods Human Life Division Adolescence Privileged

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“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

“I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.”

Ifs Made Dark Childhood Scary Myth Teeth Made It Fairy What If Scary Things Tooth Fairy Hellboy

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."”

Ifs Want Said Actors Father Parent Cases Study Nice Childhood Fine Really Nice Welding

Author:Robin Williams

“I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Acting Childhood Areas Pursuit Enjoyed Playing Music

Author:Dermot Mulroney

“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.”

Ifs Two Use Problem Care Cases Childhood Cost Percent Thirds Medical Primaries Expenses Curves Competitors Comprehensive Obesity Reconcile Charging Childhood Obesity Primary Care

Author:William J. Clinton

“My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Made Use Home Would Be Mother Parent Attention Laughing Comedy Childhood Humour Lonely Raised Witty Maids Funny And Witty

Author:Robin Williams

“If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.”

Ifs Writing Book Real Kids Remember Childhood Picks Books For Kids

Author:Robert Munsch

“I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.”

Ifs Way Remember Values Lost Environment Childhood Towns Impression Small Town Rest Of Your Life Lost Friend

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.”

“Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.”

Source: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .”

Ifs Light Certain Childhood

Author:Carol Shields

“Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.”

Ifs Way May Government Community Childhood Example Disease Stronger Spending Resistance Outcomes Nutrition Vaccines Expenditures Government Spending Vaccinations Immunisation

Author:Michael Moore

“If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.”

Ifs Inspirational Age Childhood Middle Personality Discovery Essence Surprise Developing Intrigue Middle Ages Gateways Exhilaration

Author:Erik Erikson

“I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.”

People Ifs Too Much Magic Childhood Questioning Skeptical Magic Of Childhood

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.”

Ifs World Kids Childhood Thrown

Author:Paul Tough

“I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.”

Ifs Different Happens Would Be Perfect Fantasy Childhood Machines Daydreaming Spaceships Back In Time Time Machine Different Life Go Back In Time Time And Change

Author:Sasha Grey

“After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.”

Ifs Lines Knowing Childhood Draws Responsible Adulthood Fifteen

Author:LIZ

“Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.”

Ifs Thinking Years Different Four Childhood Perspective Four Years Different Perspective

Author:Mary Harron

“My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.”

Ifs Self Wanted Mother Winning Issues Childhood Trauma If I Could Pageant Beauty Pageant

Author:Pam Grier

“If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood.”

Ifs Knows Want Childhood Your Children Bottles

Author:Dave Barry

“All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Faces Joy Sides Hours Clear Blood Childhood Pure Bottom Lifts Your Children Just One Intoxication Lift You Up

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.”

People Ifs Years Kind Persons Five Childhood My Friends Five Years Honorable Lifelong Respectful Five Year Olds Lifelong Friends Childhood Friend

Author:Tony Vlachos

“I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you have had all the inoculations you need to keep you on a level keel for the rest of your life. The sad part is, most of us don't come out.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Lines Levels Childhood Mines Tough Bottom Turkeys Bottom Line Rest Of Your Life Keel

Author:James A. Michener

“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.”

Ifs Want Feels Has Beens Sometimes Bits Goal Taken Sacrifice Childhood Achieve Tiny Achieving Your Goals

Author:Freddy Adu

“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Doe Stills Real Grows Human Beings Forget Numbers Growing Up Childhood Eating Phones Hats Forget It Phone Numbers Real Human Salami

Author:Erich Kastner

“In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.”

Ifs Religious Laughing Childhood Very Good Abandonment Assistants

Author:Dalai Lama

“When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different. I always can go back to what I love, but if somebody has a better idea, then I'm all for it.”

Ifs May Ideas Different Childhood Perspective

Author:Jon M. Chu

“I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.”

Ifs Kids Used Party Childhood Sitting Tables Crowns Anticipate Annuals Birthday Party Coronation

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“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

“Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.”

“It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese.”

Ifs Matter Age Childhood Late Too Late Cheese Never Too Late Happy Childhood

Author:Rick Steves

“My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.”

Ifs Important School Certain Ability Childhood Skills Degrees High School Sense Of Humor Uniqueness Adolescence Organize American Politics School Days

Author:Lee Atwater

“One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.”

Ifs Knows Mean Childhood Happy Childhood

Author:John Malkovich

“Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and not violence, love and not hate, cooperation and not murder, justice and not selfishness, we have to learn how to make childhood more happy. No nobler task could be pursued by our generation.”

Ifs World Want Years Hate Justice Violence Generations Childhood Anxiety Tasks Murder Selfishness Cooperation Hostility Pursued Nursery Our Generation Competitiveness

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”

Ifs Children States Shows Childhood Dread Decay Corpses Inner Child Children Playing Unhappy Childhood

Author:Brian Aldiss

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