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“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

“Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.”

Knows Lasts Chance Too Much Childhood Last Chance

Book:Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'

Source: Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'

“I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...”

Knows Men Father House Parent Loss Wonderful Childhood Inheritance Wonderful Woman

Author:James A. Michener

“Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.”

Knows World Persons Made Morning Childhood Excited Video Sophisticated Saturday Cartoon Saturday Morning Excited About Life

Author:Jon M. Chu

“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.”

Knows Children Care Young Pay Quality Focus Childhood Return Resources Investment Rate Health Care Young Children High Quality Dividends Betting Early Childhood

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.”

Knows Want Behinds Childhood

Author:Jean Cocteau

“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

“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

“I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.”

People Knows Childhood Gay Doomed Gay People

Author:Dolly Parton

“I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.”

Knows World Persons Made Stories Found Can Do Existence Childhood Shapes Built Wire Hammers

Author:James Hillman

“I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.”

Thinking Knows Littles Moments Speak Know How Childhood Cameras Inarticulate

Author:Eileen Myles

“I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.”

Knows Home Father Childhood Projects Cures Realising Childhood Home Dead Father

Author:Guy Maddin

“Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.”

Knows Different Home Sound Term Childhood Broken Our Children Broken Homes

Author:Bucky Sinister

“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Enough Social Know How Childhood Emotional Wall Drug Skills Adults Our Children Alcohol Holes Over It Ethical Feel Better Posters Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Bucky Sinister

“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.”

Knows Mean Black Natural White Childhood Comfort Connections Interviews Treatment Refugee Adopting Psychiatric

Author:Kola Boof

“For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.”

Thinking Knows Facts Hate Childhood I Hate Eggs Disgusting Gross Nobody Knows Weird Things

Author:Mikey Way

“I don't remember my childhood very well at all, but my earliest memory is holding a man's hand as I was walking down the street at about 1ВЅ. I can still remember the shoes I was wearing, but I don't know who the man was or what the memory relates to.”

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Author:Naomie Harris

“My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life. When I look around and see the beautiful people and wonderful surroundings that are now my reality, I know that I have overcome so much. I still have plenty of fight left in me.”

People Knows Looks Children Stills Dream Reality Would Be Beautiful Fighting Left Wonderful Childhood Reflection Overcoming Plenty My Children Surroundings Better Life Beautiful People

Author:Andrea Navedo

“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.”

Thinking Knows Book Inspiration Certain Found Influence Childhood Huge Magician Brideshead Revisited

Author:Hale Appleman

“I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.”

Knows Doe Bigs Culture Sound Black Childhood Being True Accents Admitting Black Culture Black Music

Author:Moshe Kasher

“I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.”

Thinking Knows Looks Children Use Young Comedy Childhood Dangerous Drug Defense Alcohol Nightmare Why Not Looking Good Being Funny

Author:Joy Behar

“I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.”

Thinking Knows Humans Reason Father Human Beings Childhood Daughter Cooks Damage Eggs

Author:Terry Gross

“The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.”

Knows Said Mother Father Happened Childhood Psychoanalysis

Author:Jessica Lange

“That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where your dad had been imprisoned, had been tortured, and came to America with nothing, washing dishes for 50 cents an hour. That was perhaps the most formative experience of my childhood, is being raised in that household where freedom had an urgency.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of course, you never know when they're interesting moments, but there was a lot of stuff that I remember and have attached significance to later. I remember enough. I remember highlights.”

Thinking Knows Enough Moments Remember Film Courses Stuff Interesting Childhood Significance Highlights

Author:Mara Wilson

“I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"”

People Knows Trying Kind Pain Successful Childhood Horror Understood Negative Down And Bucks Nancy Interfaces

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood, but I do feel that some of the things my parents said to me and how they raised me really stuck with me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Said Parent Childhood Raised Stuck This Life

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.”

People Thinking Knows Way Writing Years Wells Ends Hands Language Clear Childhood Skills Six Computer Math Lawyer Way Of Thinking Elementals Six Year Olds Spatial

Author:Robert Greene

“I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.”

Knows Men Trying Mind Wanted Together Childhood Achieve Particular Dad Blame My Dad Enormous Inability Deficit Family Life Blueprints Frame Of Mind

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about nothing, you know? But there's nothing more psychedelic than kids is there? Childhood is like being on acid most of the time anyway.”

Knows Kids Three Childhood Singing Skinny Acid Psychedelic Lad

Author:Dom Thomas

“With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.”

Knows Writing Book Age Remember Young Term Memories My Own Groups Childhood Incredibles Telling The Truth

Author:Judy Blume

“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Cities Seeing Childhood Missing Collapse Short Time Fragility Beirut

Author:Greg Kinnear

“I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.”

Thinking Knows Men Persons Ideas Given Childhood Circumstances Easier Illusion Raised Solitary Casual Loner

Author:Steve Martin

“A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.”

People Knows Childhood Tragic Over It Get Over

Author:Phil McGraw

“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.”

Knows Book Bigs Night Actors Parent My Own Walks Deals Childhood Library Movie Saturday Big Deal Saturday Night Wednesday Wednesday Nights

Author:Robert Redford

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”

Knows Country Tree Childhood Singers Farms Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Country Singer Most Random

Author:Taylor Swift

“I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.”

Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

“I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.”

People Knows Years Mind Wells Two Remember Half Childhood Two Years Recollection Two Year Olds Daguerreotypes

Author:Orson Welles

“Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, 'This is the way, walk ye in it.'”

Knows Way Looks Light Voice Walks Common Wonder Journey Childhood Keys Obstacles Woods Distraction Usual Exhausted

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

Knows Want Inspirational Children Stills Felt Psychology Childhood Hints Memories Dreams Reflections Child Psychology

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”

Knows Should Kind May Children Helping Age School Humanity Religious Sun Childhood Sweet Flower Intellectual Consequence Active Dawn Spontaneity Splendor Montessori Suppressing Veneration

Author:Maria Montessori

“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

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time.”

Knows Children Littles Long Enough Feelings Lasts Given Pieces Childhood Minutes One Day Long Time Lonely Gold Your Children Outcomes Hopeless Feeling Lonely Last Minute Shaving Ambient

Book:The Ten-Year Nap

Source: The Ten-Year Nap

“I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.”

Knows Persons Enough Body Past Father Grows Realizing Childhood Birth This Life Time Travel Backwards Grandparent Stairs Puff Communes

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.”

Knows Want Looks Joy Girl Three Hours Behinds Half Watches Forever Childhood Sweet Meetings Trauma Bars Jail Childhood Trauma

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”

Knows Mother Wise Childhood Rude Embarassing

Author:Mercedes Lackey